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  • Actors: Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Amira Casar, Natacha Regnier, Hubert Kounde
  • Directors: Anne Fontaine
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 21 April 2003
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008OP5S
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50,936 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Cool, subtle psychological drama is a French speciality, and Anne Fontaine's Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere ("How I Killed My Father") is an ultra-classy specimen of the genre. A study in the way emotional paralysis gets passed on from one generation to the next, it often recalls Philip Larkin's famous lines, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad; they may not mean to, but they do."

Jean-Luc, a wealthy gerontologist to the ageing rich of Versailles (that's the town, rather than the ex-royal palace) gets a letter from Africa telling him his father's dead. Since his parent walked out on him and his brother when they were little, he's not too shattered by the news. But next thing he knows, the old boy has shown up and invited himself in for an indefinite stay. And under his blandly disruptive gaze, all the hidden faultlines in Jean-Luc's life--in his marriage, his relationships with his mistress and his failed-actor younger brother--start cracking wide open.

Fontaine's film has points in common with Nanni Moretti's masterly The Son's Room, which also showed a professional man's seemingly flawless life crumbling under unforeseen family stresses. But befitting its Italian setting, that was a far warmer and less inhibited set-up. As Jean-Luc, Charles Berling's ice-blue eyes and chiselled good looks seem frozen in a mask of tight repression, and he's superbly matched by veteran actor Michel Bouquet as Maurice, his manipulative father. Both actors, and Stéphane Guillon as Jean-Luc's brother, are impeccably cast and it's easy to believe these three are closely related.

The stiffly formal architecture of Versailles makes an ideal backdrop, and there's a quietly ominous score from British composer Jocelyn Pook, who also scored Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Ultimately Fontaine tantalisingly leaves us guessing whether Maurice really does return, or whether he's a ghost conjured! up from his son's guilt-ridden subconscious.

On the DVD: How I Killed My Father on disc offers nothing but the theatrical trailer; a missed opportunity given that Fontaine, whose fifth feature this is, is little-known outside France. The transfer is full-screen; visual and sound quality is flawless. --Philip Kemp

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 5
French
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Dolby Digital 5.1
Original Theatrical Trailer
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
English


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A film for grown-ups, 15 Mar 2007
By Al (UK) - See all my reviews
A forty-year-old man's life is held up to scrutiny by the re-appearance of his estranged father. Both seem to lead hollow lives but who has made the right choices, who has been the most selfish,he who has run away or he who has condemned himself and his wife to shallow bourgeois conformity?
This is a complex, at times moving account of chances lost and chances taken, of loneliness and frozen emotions. That we care so much about these "superfluous" men is down to the subtle performances of the actors Charles Berling and Michel Bouquet, and they are supported by a quietly powerful score and fine cinematography. Another fine French film for grown-ups.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Thriller, 21 April 2009
By DL Productions UK (Merseyside, UK) - See all my reviews
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I guess fatherhood can be bizarre, with the emotions running riot the first few days, and the worry that you might think "I'm not going to like this baby", which sometimes makes fatherhood a complete nightmare (from what I can tell, personally I think I'd be pretty happy, well, my impression anyway), but what happens if you don't bond with the child? You don't have time to have a father-son relationship with them? This is what happens to Jean-Luc and Patrick, brothers who didn't spend much time with their father Maurice, because he was too busy doing something else, which obviously frustrated them, and lead them not to care anymore.

Maurice is back though, when Jean-Luc gets an award and the freedom of his town. Jean-Luc doesn't take too well to it, but Patrick does and loves the attention he gets at the comedy club while his father watches. He's also rather interested in Isa, Jean-Luc's wife, who seems to have more troubles than happiness in her life. The essence is, why is he back, and what could he possibly want after all these years, and this makes Jean-Luc worry.

This is a great tension filled movie, Michel Bouquet as the father Maurice is great, and he's very well spoken; his soft, ellequent voice makes this a joy to behold on it's own, his vocabulary is just like poetry in this movie, which makes up for the others. Charles Berling is pretty good in this, but he really didn't set the scenes alight - his unfaithful character makes it hard for you to root for him during the film, as he does come across as a bad guy, with his in-set eyes and rather unfriendly demeanour, which he tries to cover up in smart snazzy suits. I was disappointed that Hubert Kondé didn't get a better role in this, after all he has been very good in the last movies he did - his role as an African community leader is great, and I thought the green suit was rather cool.

Some people say this film is boring, I'd totally disagree, it has all the elements of a thriller, you're thinking "this is called 'How I Killed My Father', so he must be dying soon, right", and the intrigue builds from that. Anne Fontaine has a great way of making you stay with the plot, and see what's going to happen to Jean-Luc, and whether he's going to be found out as a fraud, or if he was right all along.

Well worth renting, though the DVD is pretty dire, with only the film, and compressed to a DVD5. At least we get a 5.1 mix which is pretty good, but otherwise there's nothing to write home about here. Probably better to look at the French edition if you really enjoyed this film.

Worth a watch, don't be put off by the one star review.
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3 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars How I killed a viewer.... with boredom!, 3 Aug 2006
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This film is slow, tedious.... and boring!
Even though in 21st Century many people have the attention span of a mosquitio - I kept saying to myself... "Who cares? "
I know I didn't! Couldn't wait for it to end.
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