Family Portrait

Name: Family Portrait
Genre: Drama
Released: June 28, 2024
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 72

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| Release Date: June 28, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Jun 28, 2024

While free-floating and airy in its construction, the film’s deceiving familiarity slowly erodes, morphing into an unsettling, formally astute brain-tickler observing the placid domesticity of an affluent Texas family in their natural habitat. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Jun 27, 2024

If you’re willing to take the plunge, it’s a haunting experience. Whether you come up for air or retreat back into the woods, well, that’s another thing entirely. Read full review

The Film Stage Savina Petkova

Jun 10, 2024

It’s easy to see Family Portrait as a film about familial dynamics (all of which are similarly complex) and a snapshot of an erratic day (all of which are, when the family gathers), but Kerr unearths something buried much deeper. Throbbing underneath the surface is longing. Read full review

William Repass

Jun 25, 2024

If the edge of Kerr’s scalpel is blunted somewhat by the sheer number of other films that show the “dark underbelly of suburbia,” Family Portrait stands out for its profound mistrust, not just of images but of the sense of sight altogether. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 12, 2024

Even at 74 minutes, “Family Portrait” sometimes feels like it would have made a stronger 20-minute short film. It’s stuck in that space where a filmmaker has too many ideas for a short but not quite enough meat on the bones for a feature. And yet, a mastery of tone here makes that criticism fade in memory—kind of like how we pick and choose what we remember from family gatherings. Read full review

Katarina Docalovich

Jul 9, 2024

This closely choreographed chaos, paired with a harsh soundscape that gives off an anxiety-inducing underwater effect, ushers us into an enigmatic story of a family on the brink of unraveling. Read full review

Screen Rant Grant Hermanns

Jun 28, 2024

While it does succeed in creating a bizarre atmosphere that captures plenty of simmering tension, it's trapped between being a proof-of-concept short film and a feature-length effort. Read full review

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