Comment j'ai tué mon père (My Father and I) Reviews
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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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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Watching these two actors play against each other so intensely, but with restraint, is a treat.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are, and how to push them.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
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.
Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.
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.
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| Original Score: A-
Rarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema.
The simmering strengths of How I Killed My Father owe much to its two male leads.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
A top-notch study of family angst.
| Original Score: 3/4
Viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some Freudian puppet.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Demonstrates why nowadays the best thing you can say about an American movie is that it plays like a French film.
Rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations.
A solid examination of the male midlife crisis.
