Family Viewing

Family Viewing

1987 · 86 min · EN · 5.4 (39 votes)
Dir. Atom Egoyan · Starring David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian, Selma Keklikian, Jeanne Sabourin · Music Mychael Danna

“Some things possess you at the strangest times”

Drama

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?

VIBE

This film feels like a hazy, unsettling memory. It's a quiet, melancholic exploration of fractured family dynamics and the erosion of genuine connection in a world increasingly mediated by screens. A bleak, yet strangely compelling, character study.

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