2009 · drama · family · art house
Father of My Children
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve1h 51m2009
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children, and a stimulating job. He's a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs.
Our read: Father of My Children (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · family · art house entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
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