Other Titles • Comment j'ai tué mon père • How I Killed My Father (2002) • My Father and I (2004) • The Way I Killed My Father
Synopses for Comment j'ai tué mon père (2001)
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Forty year-old Jean-Luc is a successful gerontologist living in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Versailles with his beautiful wife Isa. On the surface, Jean-Luc appears to have everything one could want from life, however the unexpected arrival of his long estranged father (Maurice) promises to shatter Jean-Luc’s facade.
A quiet yet lively man, Maurice abandoned his wife and two young sons years ago, without any apparent misgivings, to practice medicine in Africa. Upon his sudden return, Maurice is quick to view his older son’s life and world with a detachment that verges on cruelty, and it isn’t long before he profoundly disrupts the fragile and truly imperfect bourgeois lives of Jean-Luc and those around him.
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 Régnier), a beautiful house, and a beautiful mistress (how French!). Then one day he receives a letter stating that his long estranged father, Maurice (César 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. Fennessy
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