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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0807839000818
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: TLA Releasing
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 67780
Studio: TLA Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
Real-life father and son Gerard Depardieu and Guillaume Depardieu star in this almost too-close-for-comfort drama about fame and a dysfunctional family. Paul is a menacing yet sympathetic twenty-something drifter who has lived his life in the shadow of Leo, his emotionally distant father. Leo is a celebrated novelist who has just won a Nobel Prize. In a moment of desperation, Paul abducts Leo and tries to connect with him as they travel the English countryside. A Loving Father traces the complexities of family dynamics in this bitterly funny tale. French with English subtitles.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Son seeks closure
This movie offers a hard hitting and very important lesson for men dealing with their fathers.
Rating:  - Some people just should never have children!Therapeutic!!!
My mother once confessed to me in her 65th year,"Ya know,it took me 65 years to realize that I should have never married and had children in the first place!" This is a very sobering and brutally frank remark from a Mother to her Son,huh?My Father once confessed,"I can't understand how you could feel the way you do,because I am not like that!"Ah,once again,parental words by which a child can form himself,right!? Well, that is exactly what you will get in the film A LOVING FATHER-brutal frankness! ... Read More
Rating: - An unhappy family falls completely apart, all for the better
This is a story of a long conflicted family in which a series of events allows three members of the family to make breaks with the past and move foward.
Leo Shepard, played by Gerard Depardieu, is a French novelist who has just won the Nobel Prize in literature. He is a rugged rural farmer, a dominating father to his daughter and son-in-law, and a womanizer who dominates a string of women who worship him over the years.
His daughter, Virginie, played by Sylvie Testud, has ... Read More
Rating: - Variety film critic Derek Elley's point of view
"In a wonderfully sustained section of grumpy but restrained acting, Depardieu Sr. gives the stage to his son, who's more than up to the challenge. Their scenes together, staged almost like a black comedy, are free of both unnecessary verbal violence and ingratiating sentiment, preparing the way for their uneasy truce when the son cuts his father's bonds and they travel on as equals.
As Paul opens up emotionally, and Leo reciprocates, we realize they're both damaged goods: The 28-year-old ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointing Film
One usually equates Gerard Depardieu with good films, both light and dramatic, French or English. But THE LOVING FATHER just misses. Gerard Depardieu tries to make something out of this script about a father who has neglected his son Paul (played by Guillame Depardieu, his true son) for his writing. If ever there were a dysfunctional family story this is it. Leo (Depardieu) is so successful writer that he has just won the Nobel Prize. His transitional family (daughter Virginie played by Sylvie Testud, ... Read More
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