The father of my children Mia Hansen-Love
Synopsis The film is the story of Canvel Grégoire, a man who has everything. A woman who loves him, three lovely daughters, a job that passion. Does the filmmaker and devoted to his work all the time and energy. The family suffers, but understands it. He has charisma, Grégoire. He produced many films, took many risks and accumulated debts. His Moon Films is on the verge of bankruptcy. He resists at all costs, but the failure is evident, the irreparable harm. Cornered, he chose to bow out with an extreme gesture and no explanation. Others, again, the task of understanding.
The father of my children door to the cinema the story of sad Humbert Balsan , French producer of great directors of arthouse cinema as Youssef Chahine, Nasrallah Yousri, Claire Denis and all those authors in the world, from Tajikistan to South Korea, looking for a partner willing to take risks and believe in their projects. A passionate man, Balsan, who like the character in the film is named Grégoire Canvel loved the film like few others, open to life and art than the art itself and stopped and walked on.
But what in life was the failure of a professional man and its project in the hands of the young director Mia Hansen-Love becomes a sweet, intense family melodrama. French-born Austrian, was felt as early as the semi-autobiographical Tout est pardonée, in competition to ' Alba International Film Festival in 2008, the Hansen-Love has learned the craft from Olivier Assayas , for which worked as an actress and by which it is the lesson of a cinema close to the bodies and faces of the characters in the physical substance of the images, but intimate, private, almost spiritual in the predominance of feelings and emotions
The father of my children play on the expectation and the construction of an ideal world: The first part is a long prelude to something that has to happen and will happen, as if love were the only family that can actually be once everything disappears and ends. So, far from a plain narrative, but in favor of a tale told of meetings and conversations, small and great happiness, the film builds up heat, affection, spontaneity, beauty and freedom when in pain is just unbearable because of what built that can be credible and sincere.
Because when the story seems to overwhelm the characters, when the event takes over and makes biographical finally turn the narrative, what the director is chosen to free the film, not to push the machine to the pain or to privilege the economic issue. Chooses to bring up the characters in the first part of it as the center of the film, plus the presence of a ghost that emerges because of its absence.
The father of my children, then, begins to follow random paths, dead ends open, notes and films the bodies of the four protagonists move in a world where the absence, paradoxically, is the only definite presence. The protagonist becomes partial and discreet especially the young daughter of Gregoire, the girl who mixes sadness and anger in solitude adolescence. The director enters gently, and near the feelings of women, knows how to make real in their dance of laughter and tears, small epiphanies like a candlelit dinner or when the girls enter the office for the last time father and the face ' without taking away the memories: a business card, waste of film of an old movie.
The father of my children is a film about cinema, but cinema as a vehicle of life and beauty, because just talking about relationships, love, growth, confused. It is an extraordinary film: Mia Hansen-Love should perhaps too much to the cinema of its models, but eventually emerges in all her femininity and becomes a sad story and sad in a hymn to life.
PS: Fun fact: the film titles, names of directors and the posters hanging in the study of Grégoire Canvel have been changed, but the events of productive Humbert Balsan and clips of films he has produced. The film is seen during the retrospective in Paris is The angel's right shoulder (2002) by Jamshed Usmonov , who plays himself, but under the name of Kova Asimov, while the film that led to the failure Balsan, here directed by a Swedish man was actually in London by Hungarian Bela Tarr, was stuck for two years and then finished in 2007 and presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
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