My Father and I
by Anne Fontaine
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Actor: Amira Casar, Charles Berling, Michel Bouquet, Natacha R?gnier, St?phane GuillonDirector: Anne Fontaine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
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Movie Review: Unresolved Father/Son Relationship
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is centered around the unresolved relationship between a grown son and his father. The father abandons two sons when they are very young, having never really spent time with either, and goes off to Africa to practice medicine in remote rural areas. What he cannot or never gave of himseslf to his own family, he somehow is able to share with strangers in a faraway land. One son becomes a wastrel, and the other, a society doctor, specializing in keeping rich people feeling well and looking young--The antithesis of the kind of medicine his father practiced.
The physician son believes the father is dead and is stunned to see him arrive unannounced at one of his social gatherings, scruffy, broke and without any direction to his life. As the movie progresses, we learn that the doctor's wife is starving for affection , children and a more fulfilling life, while he keeps everyone at arms' length and emotionally distant. A result of having been abandoned by his father? Or, having really never known his father, is it a deliberate strategy for life? As his life unravels, his brother's life becomes more delineated, insigthful and directed.
Throughout the movie we are teased by the presence of the father. Is he a ghost? Is this a flashback?
Summary of My Father and I
Things are not as they seem in My Father and I, Anne Fontaine's subtle, sophisticated follow-up to Dry Cleaning (also starring Charles Berling). Originally--and more aptly--titled How I Killed My Father, Fontaine presents a man who has it all. Jean-Luc (Berling) is a wealthy physician with a beautiful wife (The Dreamlife of Angels's Natacha R?gnier), a beautiful house, and a beautiful mistress (how French!). Then one day he receives a letter stating that his long estranged father, Maurice (C?sar winner and Claude Chabrol favorite Michel Bouquet), has died. Shortly afterwards, Maurice appears at his door. How can that be? And why doesn't Jean-Luc ask him about that letter? Was it sent in error or is this man an imposter? As in Francois Ozon's structurally similar Swimming Pool, Fontaine leaves it up to the viewer to solve the mystery at the heart of this exquisitely acted psychological thriller. --Kathleen C. FennessyArt House & International DVD Video
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