A Family Affair

Name: A Family Affair
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 16, 2016
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 75

2016

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Abramorama | Release Date: September 16, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him she was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in theOn his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him she was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children’s home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined.… Expand

Director: Tom Fassaert

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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Guy Lodge

Sep 15, 2016

This deceptively artless, journal-style film has no need for any carefully sculpted twists; rather, it’s the sheer unpredictable perversity of human nature that takes the breath away at key points in Fassaert’s unsettling, perhaps unsolvable, inquiry. Read full review

Abby Garnett

Sep 15, 2016

It’s a potent psychodrama, pitting Marianne’s reality against the one Fassaert is documenting Read full review

Kevin Crust

Sep 15, 2016

Tom gradually chips away at the preening facade to seemingly unmask a complex woman whose self-image was largely shaped by her appearance-obsessed father. However, the deeper he digs, the more elusive his subject becomes. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Sep 15, 2016

A Family Affair is by turns fascinating and futile, running the risk that by exposing the heartbreak of one family it will repel all those with their own unresolvable family sadness. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Sep 15, 2016

The film is much more about the way in which people perceive one another than about the way people really are. Read full review

Wes Greene

Sep 15, 2016

Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Sep 15, 2016

By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge. Read full review

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