Son frère

Name: Son frère
Genre: Drama
Released: April 2, 2004
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 78

2004

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 2, 2004

Summary: Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother's homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc's contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. (Strand Releasing)

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 92 min

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David Sterritt

Beneath its surface of chronic suffering and hospital details, Chereau's best drama etches a humane, sensitive, and richly moving portrait of fraternal love struggling to mitigate human frailty. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Son Frère is a real achievement, delicate, perceptive, somewhat muted but nonetheless strong. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Stringent, clinical and almost unbearably moving. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Chereau boldly risks alienating his audience by presenting serious illness and all its attendant indignities with an unflinching clarity that's becoming a hallmark of his work. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Todeschini has the most physically demanding role, with a gaunt face and ravaged body that utterly convinces of the brutality of the ailment. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Chéreau keenly understands both his characters and their unwanted world, from the dehumanization that occurs the moment one enters a hospital to the hope and fear that take over when one leaves. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

While its two credible leads are certainly up to the challenge, there's a relentless claustrophobia that prevents the film from taking on a fully dimensional life of its own. Read full review

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47	#47 Best Movie of 2004

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