Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Inspired by the life and death of the late, legendary French film producer Humbert Balsan, Mia Hansen-Løve’s film is a work of two halves. The first follows the business dealings of Grégoire (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing), frantically shuttling between office and home, juggling the demands of artistic egos, lawyers, and bankers, and the needs of his beloved family—not to mention his surrogate family at work. Then the focus shifts dramatically to Grégoire’s wife Sylvia (Chiara Caselli), who together with her three daughters, must cope with devastating loss and then struggle to keep Grégoire’s company afloat and preserve his legacy. If the first half of this moving yet never sentimental drama is among the most convincing depictions of life in the movie business ever filmed, the second is an incredibly tender look at picking up the pieces after heartbreaking bereavement. An IFC Films release.
110 min. 2009. France/Germany
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Mia Hansen-Løve was born in 1981. She was cast by Olivier Assayas in Late August, Early September (1998) and Les Destinées Sentimentales (2000) before she began formal training at the Paris Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique in 2001. From 2003 to 2005, Mia wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma and directed several short films. The Father of My Children is her second feature after her 2006 debut, All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardonné).
