How I Killed My Father

Name: How I Killed My Father
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: August 23, 2002
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 78

2002

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: August 23, 2002

Summary: Deals with the complex and fascinating relationship between 40 year-old Jean-Luc (Berling), a successful gerontologist living in a wealthy Parisian suburb, and his long estranged father (Bouquet).

Director: Anne Fontaine

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 98 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

The most disturbing and effective thriller I've seen in many moons. Rarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Truly, there can be nothing as complex as the simplest human relationships, and nothing as satisfying as a film that understands that as this one does. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson

The pleasure is in watching veteran star Bouquet and the versatile Berling go at it -- they even seem to look alike. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Fontaine's thoughtful character-driven screenplay is the perfect vehicle for Berling and Bouquet and both are superb. As father and son, they play off each another in fascinating ways as the film moves towards its perfectly modulated, intriguingly ambiguous final moment. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The title is to be taken figuratively, not literally -- is a top-notch study of family angst. Read full review

A.O. Scott

A kind of murder mystery, but eventually the only victim is the audience's interest -- the picture is uncompromising and inauspicious. Read full review

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