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Le père de mes enfants Father of my children |
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 Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Director Mia Hansen-Løve comes to FIAF to introduce the 7pm screening All Is Forgiven and participate in a Q&A.
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Genre: Drama
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Screenplay: Mia Hansen-Love, Clémentine Schaeffer
Starring: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing
Running Time : 1h 50 min
Distributor: Les Films du Losange IFC
FRANCE, GERMANY, Year of production: 2009
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SYNOPSIS
Grégoire Canvel has it all. A wife whom he loves, three delightful children and a job he adores. He is a film producer. Uncovering new talents and shouldering independent projects that are dear to him and true to his idea of filmmaking, are his reasons for living. Grégoire is fulfilled and devotes all his time and energy to his work. Hyperactive, he withdraws from the intensity of his job only on weekends which he spends with his family in the country. These are the few precious retreats into tranquility that he allows himself. Charismatic and successful, Grégoire inspires everyone and appears invincible. However, his production company is flailing. Too many productions, too many risks… Cracks are fissuring its structure from all sides. But Grégoire perseveres at all costs and until everything falls apart : only then is he forced to face the reality of his failure. And soon, secretly, a deep despair engulfs his entire existence and sense of self.
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REVIEWS
Cahiers de Cinéma : A tremendous amount of generosity is poured into this portrait (…), which is both reverent and grateful.
Les Inrockuptibles : Profoundly well-meaning, the film succeeds brilliantly in opening up every point of view (…). Mia Hansen-Love’s cinema is illuminated and tender. |
BIOGRAPHY
Director's Biography
In 1998, Mia Hansen-Love’s frail silhouette is first noticed in Olivier Assayas’ Fin août, début septembre as the love interest of the complicated and troubled writer Adrien, played by François Cluzet . Two years later, she reappears in the same director’s film Les Destinées sentimentales , and begins taking acting lessons at the Conservatoire municipal parisien. She soon decides to cut short her acting career and instead is hired as a film critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma between 2003 and 2005. After a handful of shorts, Mia Hansen directs in 2006 her first full-feature, Tout est pardonné , which portrays the breakdown of a family due to the father’s drug addiction. Presented at the “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs”, and awarded with the Prix Louis-Delluc for best first work, the film charms through its delicacy, but also the subtlety of its construction and the fresh authenticity of its cast composed of budding new talents. These same qualities reappear in her second work, shown at Cannes in 2009 in the category “Un Certain Regard”. Le Père de mes enfants , a life testimony and elegy, is inspired by the life of Humbert Balsan , a producer who before putting and end to his life in 2005, had initially promised to finance Mia Hansen-Love’s film.
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FILMOGRAPHY
Director’s Selective filmography
2003 - Après mûre réflexion (court-métrage)
2005 - Offre Spéciale (court-métrage)
2007 - Tout est pardonné
2009 - Le Père de mes enfants, présenté à Cannes
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2007 : Tout est pardonné receives the Prix Louis-Delluc for best first long-feature
* 2010 : Le Père de mes enfants receives the Prix Lumière for best screenplay.
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