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Consensus: How I Killed My Father is a penetrating character study of father-son ties.
Theatrical Release:Aug 23, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Forty year-old Jean-Luc is a successful gerontologist living in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Versailles with his beautiful wife Isa. On the surface, Jean-Luc appears to have everything one could... [More]
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Regnier, Amira Casar
Director: Anne Fontaine
The film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome. And it sees those relationships, including that between the son and his wife, and the wife and the father, and between the two brothers, with incredible subtlety and acumen.
Top CriticAvoiding simplistic psychological 'explanations', The Way I Killed My Father scrutinizes the Oedipal father-son conflict with icy assurance.
Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.
Fontaine indulges her signature style, creating a carefully measured film -- the kind whose impact slowly sneaks up on its audience and haunts them long after leaving the theatre.
Brilliantly and pitilessly dissects a father-son relationship that has deteriorated beyond dysfunction.
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
Top CriticCold, nervy and memorable.
A bela construção de personagens merece elogios.
How I Killed My Father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts.
A complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away.
Fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict, inextricably entwined through family history, each seeing himself in the other, neither liking what he sees.
Trés French, trés fascinating psychodrama.
Top CriticHow I Killed My Father would be a rarity in Hollywood. It's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects, but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones.
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Vet French actor Michel Bouquet renders such an astounding performance that he elevates Anne Fontaine's family melodrama way above its Freudian foundations and male menopause.
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The murder is metaphorical in Anne Fontaine's exquisite French character study How I Killed My Father, but it's still shocking in the quietest, most well-mannered of ways.
Top CriticChillingly prosaic.
Bravely explores the psychic damage inflicted on Jean-Luc by a withholding, then absent parent.
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