A Loving Father ( Aime ton p鑽e ) ( Honor Your Father )

Gerard Depardieu (Actor), Julien Boisselier (Actor), Jacob Berger (Director) Format: DVD

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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: In the country of France, the writer Leo Shepherd lives with his daughter Virginia, who organizes his life. When the Swedish Academy awards Leo with the Nobel Prize for Literature, his son Paul unsuccessfully tries to contact him by phone, but Virginia does not allow Paul to talk to his father. Leo decides to go to Stockholm driving his motorcycle, and Paul follows him by car trying to speak with Leo. While trying to escape from Paul, Leo evolves in an accident on the road with another bike, a car and a truck and Paul kidnaps his slightly injured father. The police commit a mistake in the identification of one of the victims of the accident and announce the death of Leo. Meanwhile, Paul forces his father to listen to him, and along their conversation, a resentful relationship from both sides is disclosed. ...A Loving Father ( Aime ton p鑽e ) ( Honor Your Father )

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Language ‏ : ‎ French

Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 Grams

Director ‏ : ‎ Jacob Berger

Media Format ‏ : ‎ Import, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen

Run time ‏ : ‎ 100 minutes

Actors ‏ : ‎ Gerard Depardieu, Julien Boisselier, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, No駑ie Kocher

Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English

Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0)

Studio ‏ : ‎ DV1

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003DA2GOC

Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Stylish Depardieu performance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2011
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An interesting film - quickly gripping and with some adventure but mainly exploring the troubled relationship between a father (Depardieu) and his son. Recommended for admirers of Depardieu's work.
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Variety film critic Derek Elley's point of view
Reviewed in the United States on 6 June 2004
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"In a wonderfully sustained section of grumpy but restrained acting, Depardieu Sr. gives the stage to his son, who's more than up to the challenge. Their scenes together, staged almost like a black comedy, are free of both unnecessary verbal violence and ingratiating sentiment, preparing the way for their uneasy truce when the son cuts his father's bonds and they travel on as equals.
As Paul opens up emotionally, and Leo reciprocates, we realize they're both damaged goods: The 28-year-old had a spell with drugs, and Leo, once an inveterate womanizer, confesses he's now dried up as a writer. More than once, the pic plays like a twisted version of Ingmar Bergman's '50s classic, "Wild Strawberries," also centered on a distinguished personality recalling his youth and shortcomings as he journeys to accept an award.
Jean-Claude Petit's orchestral score turns what could have been a by-the-numbers father-son drama into a kind of emotional thriller, and the sense of dislocation from reality is heightened by Berger's direction, which is speckled with offbeat touches and humor. (Helmer's only previous feature was the 1990 "Angels," followed by telemovie work.) Ending is refreshingly free of saccharine melodrama, with a dreamlike, ironic coda.
Supporting cast is solid, with Testud essaying another of her brittle roles as the daughter who can't bear to see her father squander his talent.
But the main show is between the two Depardieus, in a piece of casting that resonates beyond their roles onscreen. In this one pic, Gerard reclaims his position as one of Europe's finest actors, after a recent series of unwise choices. Here he settles comfortably into a late-middle-aged persona that doesn't rely on eccentricities or pure physicality, while Guillaume definitely comes of screen age."
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Again Not too Crazy about this film
Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2013
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Again I bought this DVD due to having Gerard Depardieu in it and especially his son Guillaume. Still the story line seemed crazy. It is just different I guess. But I was not crazy about this story.
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Leslie Gardner
feeble and contrived
Reviewed in the United States on 1 February 2014
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this plays like therapy and we are disincluded - entirely unlikely scenario of son entrapping his father to find forgiveness - made tragic by the son's early death ..
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Thomas T. Butler
Not as advertised
Reviewed in the United States on 12 March 2013
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Both the Amazon ad and the DVD container list the film's running time as 103 minutes (which agrees with the IMDB web site). However, the actual DVD has a running time of only 99 minutes. This is a widely distributed CUT version of this film.
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