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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.Full Review

San Francisco Chronicle

The most disturbing and effective thriller I've seen in many moons. Rarely, indeed almost never, is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite, unfakable sense of cinema.Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

Under Fontaine's direction, family dysfunction is an intense experience with unexpectedly positive repercussions, even if the steps between are painful and potentially deadly.Full Review

Jonathan Curiel
San Francisco Chronicle

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.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Michel Bouquet's performance makes Anne Fontaine's How I Killed My Father required viewing.Full Review

Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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