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Romulus, My Father (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 5

Rotten:5

Average Rating: 5.9/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexuality, some violence and brief language.

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:2007

Synopsis: Actor Richard Roxburgh makes a smooth transition to directing with this moving drama adapted from Raimond Gaita's memoir. Eric Bana (MUNICH) stars as Romulus, a Yugoslavian man who struggles to... Actor Richard Roxburgh makes a smooth transition to directing with this moving drama adapted from Raimond Gaita's memoir. Eric Bana (MUNICH) stars as Romulus, a Yugoslavian man who struggles to raise his young son alone in Victoria, Australia. After the family moves from Europe, his wife's depression takes over and she leaves her husband and son alone to fend for themselves in the foreign country. Franka Potente (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) plays the absent mother, while Marton Csokas and Russell Dykstra costar. [More]

Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Russell Dykstra

Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Russell Dykstra, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacek Koman

Director: Richard Roxburgh

Director: Richard Roxburgh
Screenwriter: Nick Drake
Producer: Robert Connolly, John Maynard
Composer: Basil Hogios
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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10/18/08
Monika Bartyzel
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Builds up an emotional head of steam that draws audiences towards it.

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06/14/08
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

For all its sad moments, Romulus, My Father is a love story between father and son kept aloft by unalloyed admiration.

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02/29/08
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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For all that it's well made and expertly acted, the film keeps its audience at arm's length, letting viewers observe without offering an emotional portal of entrance.

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02/29/08
James Berardinelli
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It's not clear what we're supposed to take away from the film.

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02/29/08
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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The darkness of the story is counterbalanced by some of the most radiantly beautiful cinematography I've seen in a long time.

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02/29/08
Joe Morgenstern
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The picture has a tranquil, gentle nature about it that's almost soothing, while offering examples of familial terror Roxburgh processes superbly...there's much to admire.

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02/29/08
Brian Orndorf
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Gaita clearly had a rough childhood, but while the tragedies of his young life pile up on screen the drama remains frustratingly inert.

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02/29/08
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

Romulus, My Father is a stacked deck determined to make you feel bad, but it rarely makes you feel anything else.

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02/28/08
Tim Grierson
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Helming bow by Oz thesp Richard Roxburgh predictably leaves actors plenty of room, but the literary tone and episodic structure rob the pic of dramatic momentum.

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06/11/07
Russell Edwards
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It's fitting perhaps that a film based on Rai Gaita's memoirs should play rather like a string of memories; we don't remember the past in a linear story but as patches, chapters, moments, sometimes merely fractions of their entirety.

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