
SummaryDeals with the complex and fascinating relationship between 40 year-old Jean-Luc (Berling), a successful gerontologist living in a wealthy Parisian suburb, and his long estranged father (Bouquet).
Directed By:Anne Fontaine
Written By:Jacques Fieschi, Anne Fontaine
How I Killed My Father
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
89% Positive
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Under Fontaine's direction, family dysfunction is an intense experience with unexpectedly positive repercussions, even if the steps between are painful and potentially deadly.
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Michel Bouquet's performance makes Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father required viewing.
88
Polite but emotionally devastating, How I Killed My Father throws such questions out like smart bombs, and they detonate long after the end-credits have rolled.
80
Fontaine and Jacques Fieschi collaborated on the screenplay, and Jocelyn Pook's chilly string score nicely evokes the menace underlying the film's plush settings.
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Fontaine gives her film the tone of a psychological thriller, with the potential of violence always lurking beneath the surface.
75
The title is to be taken figuratively, not literally -- is a top-notch study of family angst.
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A disappointment after the droll, breezy suggestiveness of Fontaine's equally Freudian "Dry Cleaning," How I Killed My Father is rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations.
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Production Company:
- Ciné B
- Cinéa
- France 2 Cinéma
- PHF Films S.L.
Release Date:Aug 23, 2002
Duration:1 h 38 m
Awards
César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Locarno Film Festival
• 1 Nomination




























