How I Killed My Father Critic Reviews
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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.Read the full review
The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing.Read the full review
Truly, there can be nothing as complex as the simplest human relationships, and nothing as satisfying as a film that understands that as this one does.Read the full review
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. Read the full review
Not about murder in the literal sense, although that seems a possibility. It is about a man who would like to kill his father, and who may have been killed spiritually by his father.Read the full review
Fontaine gives her film the tone of a psychological thriller, with the potential of violence always lurking beneath the surface.Read the full review
A kind of murder mystery, but eventually the only victim is the audience's interest -- the picture is uncompromising and inauspicious.Read the full review
