Hushed but scalpel-sharp drama, a movie that'll probably send men in the audience home much quieter than they arrived.
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12/19/03
My Father and I (2002)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
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
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Reviews for My Father and I
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Top CriticTrés French, trés fascinating psychodrama.
12/26/02
Top CriticThis is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
11/22/02
Top CriticCold, nervy and memorable.
11/21/02
Top CriticThe 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.
11/02/02
Top CriticFontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.
10/08/02
Top CriticBouquet gives a performance that is masterly.
09/20/02
Top CriticPenetrating and emotionally complex.
09/12/02
Top CriticThe 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.
08/31/02
Top CriticRarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema.
08/30/02
Top CriticThe simmering strengths of How I Killed My Father owe much to its two male leads.
08/23/02
Top CriticA top-notch study of family angst.
08/23/02
Top CriticViewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some Freudian puppet.
08/22/02
Top CriticDemonstrates why nowadays the best thing you can say about an American movie is that it plays like a French film.
08/22/02
Top CriticRather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations.
08/20/02
Top CriticA solid examination of the male midlife crisis.
08/15/02
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