The Father of My Children
Grégoire, a Parisian film producer, has it all — a beautiful wife, three adorable daughters, wealth and a buzzing career. On the surface he seems invincible, maintaining humor and charm as he tirelessly juggles the demands of his production company with his family's needs. But when Grégoire's reserves — both financial and emotional — reach a dramatic breaking point, his family's love and resilience is tested. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and featured at the Toronto and London Film Festivals, THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN is an extraordinarily perceptive new drama from emerging young talent Mia Hansen—Love, and a deeply moving portrait of family in tumult.
- Director
- Mia Hansen-Love
- Actors
- Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss
- Genre
- Drama
- Run Time
- 1 hour 50 minutes
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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A tale of cinema, a story about the agonies of trying to work outside the cinematic mainstream (even in France!). Yet what makes the movie so affecting is that ita(TM)s also a love story about a family.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 06.24.2010 -
You could argue that the film fails to revive the harassed intensities of its first hour, but I doubt whether they could have been sustained; and what we get instead, with its stunned and glassy air, yields a slow-breathing drama of its own.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 06.24.2010 -
There is much opportunity to turn the film into a soaper, but Hansen-Love resists.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post, 06.24.2010 -
Beautiful, profound and, given the gathering tensions of its story, phenomenally full of life.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, 06.24.2010
