How I Killed My Father

How I Killed My Father

2001 · 98 min · FR · 5.9 (27 votes)
Dir. Anne Fontaine · Starring Michel Bouquet, Charles Berling, Natacha Régnier, Amira Casar, Stéphane Guillon, François Berléand · Music Jocelyn Pook
Drama

When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?

VIBE

This is a deeply introspective and melancholic slow-burn, exploring the complex echoes of a fractured past. It feels like a quiet, tense excavation of long-buried emotional wounds, demanding a thoughtful engagement with themes of paternal absence and the arduous path to forgiveness. A somber, character-driven psychological drama.

introspectivemelancholictensesomberunresolvedslow-burncharacter-driven dramapsychological realismintimate storytellingpaternal relationshipstraumaforgivenessmemoryself-discovery
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