Tout est pardonné (eng: All is Forgiven)
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
France, 2007
Watching with a critical eye, one will find Mia Hansen-Løve’s debut feature, Tout est pardonné, curiously out of focus; as in, it strongly lacks any. Although well-meaning and decorous, Tout est pardonné has too many points of interest that dull the overall impact of the film, making it less affecting than it should’ve been.
The story opens up in Vienna where Victor (Paul Blain), a shiftless French writer, is married to Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich), his Austrian wife. Together, they have a six-year-old daughter named Pamela (Victoire Rousseau).
Unable to really communicate with either of them, especially Annette, Victor turns to drugs and is slowly consumed with an addiction, and at first, this seems to be the film’s raison d’être. We’re supposed to witness the spiraling effects of his drug...
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
France, 2007
Watching with a critical eye, one will find Mia Hansen-Løve’s debut feature, Tout est pardonné, curiously out of focus; as in, it strongly lacks any. Although well-meaning and decorous, Tout est pardonné has too many points of interest that dull the overall impact of the film, making it less affecting than it should’ve been.
The story opens up in Vienna where Victor (Paul Blain), a shiftless French writer, is married to Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich), his Austrian wife. Together, they have a six-year-old daughter named Pamela (Victoire Rousseau).
Unable to really communicate with either of them, especially Annette, Victor turns to drugs and is slowly consumed with an addiction, and at first, this seems to be the film’s raison d’être. We’re supposed to witness the spiraling effects of his drug...
- 8/17/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Summary: 'The Father of My Children' is not a satisfying or easy film. And, for that, I am especially thankful.
This French import certainly has a familiar formula: Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is an overworked producer at a struggling film studio who tries his best to provide for his wife Sylvie (Chiara Caselli) and three daughters, Clemence (Alice de Lencquesang), Valentine (Alice Gautier), and Billie (Manelle Driss). Beyond that set-up, however, nothing about the movie follows any well-worn dramatic path. In focusing on the trials of the everyman, The Father of My Children does not elevate its protagonist into a conventional hero. Instead, it depicts life exactly how Gregoire—and perhaps, all cinema—experiences it: in pieces.
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This French import certainly has a familiar formula: Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is an overworked producer at a struggling film studio who tries his best to provide for his wife Sylvie (Chiara Caselli) and three daughters, Clemence (Alice de Lencquesang), Valentine (Alice Gautier), and Billie (Manelle Driss). Beyond that set-up, however, nothing about the movie follows any well-worn dramatic path. In focusing on the trials of the everyman, The Father of My Children does not elevate its protagonist into a conventional hero. Instead, it depicts life exactly how Gregoire—and perhaps, all cinema—experiences it: in pieces.
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- 11/9/2010
- by Josh Harrison
- Filmology
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