Preview: The Father of My Children (2010)

Synopsis:

Facing financial ruin, a film producer can't decide if he wants to end his life after having been such a failure and a potential burden on his family.

• Poster: C+

Review:

It's a simple image which works to a small extent, but it's nothing inventive and it's nothing visually stimulating. The tiny Cannes Festival laurel on the right is not that powerful a statement.

• Trailer: B-

Review:

What looks to be a somewhat depressing, thought provoking film could very well be a hollow pursuit. A lot will depend on how formulaic the dialogue is and what the director has attempted to do with it.

Oscar Prospects:

It opened at Cannes in 2009 and played the festival circuit through the end of the year and even into the new one, yet releasing a year later doesn't give me confidence that the Academy will really embrace the film. Suffice it to say, it's December release in France & Belgium will disqualify it from the lone category in which it could have competed: Foreign Language Film.

Release Date:

• May 28, 2010

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (May 23, 2010) Original