'' The Father of My Children (2010) " English Hollywood Film Release: 5/28/2010
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Opens: May 28, 2010
Release Date: May 28, 2010 (NY, LA)
Reviewed for MovieWeb by Harvey Karte
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Written By: Mia Hansen-Løve
Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/19/10
Genre:Drama
CAST:
Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss, Eric Elmosnino, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Frot
The Father of My Children (2010) Story:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, is precisely his reason for living. Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoires very presence commands admiration, and his exceptional charisma lead many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is in doubt; too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering, and Gregoires realisation that he may have made one gamble too many will trigger a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever.
Film producer Gregoire Canvel is one of those people who lives with a cell phone permanently affixed to his ear. Whether driving home late from the office or on holiday with his family, he’s on the phone negotiating the delicate juggling act of keeping creditors at bay, mollifying difficult talent and planting the seeds of new projects. With his abundant charm and implacable sense of calm, Gregoire’s world seems busy but entirely under control. It’s only about half way into the film that it becomes obvious his company is on a downward spiral beyond his control and somewhere behind his mask of confidence you begin to see a deepening gloom.
As it charts Gregoire’s slow descent, The Father of My Children reveals itself to be a contemplation of character and mood in the classic French style that worries less about the intricacies of its story than the emotions of the people who inhabit it. Focused on the nature of work and family and how the two simultaneously depend on and conflict with one another, the film shares a kinship with Olivier Assayas’ terrific Summer Hours. Though it doesn’t achieve the same heights as that film, it captures a similar melancholy mood and the two would make a nice double feature.
Partly because Gregoire is so serene in the face of his mounting troubles, Father avoids obvious melodrama in favor of a keener rumination. With one exception half way through the film, dramatic fireworks are kept to a minimum and filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve shows the uncommon patience to slow down and illuminate the human moments in between story beats. The result is a film you feel more than you intellectualize.
At 1 hour and 50 minutes, The Father of My Children may seem a little long for a lightly plotted drama, but somehow it never wears out its welcome. Because it shifts focus part way through, it’s almost like two related films in one and they’re both wholly fulfilling.
The Father of My Children (2010) SYNOPSIS
A family is forced to learn a painful lesson about the man of the house in this drama from director Mia Hansen-Love. Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is an independent film producer who runs a well-respect production company, Moon Films. For Gregoire, to work is to live, and while he loves his wife Sylvia (Chiara Caselli) and their three daughters Clemence (Alice de Lencquesaing), Valentine (Alice Gautier) and Billie (Manelle Driss), during the week he's practically a stranger to them. Gregoire makes a point of spending each weekend with his family at their cottage in the country, but even then separating him from his cell phone is all but impossible, and Sylvia and the girls are reaching the end of their patience with Gregoire and his obsession with work. Though there's no question that Gregoire is devoted to Moon Films, he's kept a secret from Sylvia and his daughters about the state of the company, and it's not until a sudden, desperate act forces Sylvia into leadership of the company that they come to understand the real reasons behind his unrelenting schedule. Le Pere de mes enfants (aka Father Of My Children) was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the "Un Certain Regard" program.
Grégoire Canvel has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, three delightful children and a stimulating job. He's a film producer.
Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema-free and true to life-is precisely his reason for living. His vocation. It fulfills him and Grégoire devotes almost all his time and energy to his work. He's hyperactive, he never stops. Except on weekends, which he spends in the country with his family-gentle interludes, as precious as they are fragile. With his bearing and exceptional charisma, Grégoire commands admiration. He seems invincible. Yet his prestigious production company, Moon Films, is on its last legs. Too many productions, too many risks, too many debts. Storm clouds are gathering. But Grégoire plows on at all costs. Where will his blind obstinacy lead him? One day, he is obliged to face the facts. In one word: failure. He is overwhelmed by fatigue. Which soon, secretly, turns into despair. --© IFC [Less]
The Father of My Children (2010) REVIEW
In Mel Brooks's "The Producers," a team of theater people opt to make money by deliberately producing a flop on Broadway. The 1968 movie won the Oscar as that year's comic highlight. By contrast, Mia Hansen-Løve's "The Father of My Children" is a deadly serious tale, based on the true event about the 2005 suicide of French producer Humbert Balsan, born into an upper-class family and known as a champion of Arab cinema who was found dead by hanging in his production office.
The principal character, Grégoire Canval (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing), does not have the flamboyance of Howard Hughes, whose "Hell's Angels" in 1930 made Jean Harlow's career, but he has charm to spare, even charisma, as he frolics with daughters Valentine (Alice Gautier) and Billie (Manelle Driss) while putting up with the teen angst of Clémence (Alice de Lencquesaing, his real-life daughter) in the family country home during one summer. His wife, Sylvia (Chiara Caselli) adores him as do the three children. He appears to have it all and shows few signs of actual depression, but the first half of the film takes us past his domestic bliss into the stress-filled days as a movie producer who is some four million euros in debt from films that soared over budget. An observer can easily say, "Why not take advantage of bankruptcy laws and liquidate the company?" Yet we see growing evidence that Grégoire is a workaholic who simply cannot live without his profession. In fact I had the impression that he was going to commit suicide from the start by his driving over the highway speed limit while smoking, talking on his cell, and ignoring his seat belt.
Hansen-Løve gives us a taste of the work of an indie-film producer, one who may put up some money of his own but has to beg for funding from banks and private investors without which no film above the cost of "The Blair Witch Project" can get made. Given the suicide that takes place at midpoint, an audience can easily get the impression that maybe it's not so great to be passionate about your work-passionate, that is, to the extent that you simply will refuse to carry on with life if your company goes belly-up.
If some will wonder why he does not show his sadness to his wife at any point, Hansen-Løve may be making the point that Grégoire's real problem is that he represses his deeply-felt emotions, a factor that more than any other could have led him to a moment of suicidal madness.
The film carries on without Grégoire during the second half, as his wife, Sylvia, travels to Sweden to try for funding for one of his incomplete features. Clémence displays the most grief, a teen on the cusp of womanhood who tries to order coffee on her own but can't deal with the enormous choices in a Starbucks-style establishment. There is some superb ensemble acting here, the little ones played by Gautier and Driss are wise beyond their years. Scenes of Paris filmed by Pascal Auffray exude the busyness of the city in a film that could have easily cut the part of Grégoire's allegedly abandoned son to bring the story in at a more sensible time.
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