At times there is a chilling atmosphere like a session with a ghost floating in intangible ectoplasm from beginning to end. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2022

In muting the warning signs, or allowing them to be absorbed into the bustle of life, Hansen-Lve secures for her film its slow-burning emotional impact.

| Jul 10, 2018

This is not an easy movie. It tackles big stuff- the biggest, really... But it breathes, nonetheless, and encourages us to do so too even in the wake of the grief it inspires us to recall in our lives.

| Nov 7, 2016

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Draws one in both empathetically and suspensefully.

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2010

A heartbreaking fable about life, legacy and the way men define themselves through their work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2010

The film is achieved with a rare tenderness and grace by 29-year-old French actress-filmmaker Mia Hanson-Love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 5, 2010

It's quiet, unshowy and devastating.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2010

It's a very intelligent film this, and one I think which is not just revealing about film-making but has insights into the dilemmas of many others who see the businesses -- or indeed family farms -- they have built up over a lifetime going under.

| Aug 27, 2010

There's a lot of intelligence and humanity in the script and it follows its own path. [Hansen-Lve's] direction shows rare confidence and poise, a willingness to build characters slowly, with a natural flow of time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2010

French drama Father of My Children addresses an extremely confronting subject with both an unblinking gaze and an open mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2010

Inception celebrates the manufactured reality, Father of My Children the true one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2010

What makes it a wonderful film is that for those of us inside this crazy dream factory, and we're only on the edges, it depicts the relentless nature of the beast, the roller-coaster ride, the unstoppable nature of a film in production.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2010

The subtle, tender sadness of the film trumps any of its small scripting problems and certainly marks out not only the film's young cast members but also the director as ones to watch.

| Aug 25, 2010

Mia Hansen-Løve deserves credit both as a writer and a director. This is a very convincing drama.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 24, 2010

Fresh-faced performances and tender writing makes for a family who jumps straight off the screen and into your heart.

| Aug 23, 2010

This delicate and beautiful film about the highs and lows of a close-knit family takes us on an emotional journey in which we experience joy, laughter, sorrow and contemplation.

| Aug 20, 2010

While the movie is far from perfect, those potential missteps are, in the end, part of what makes The Father of My Children so beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2010

A film that portrays a subject that could easily have become cloying with an austere, penetrating eye.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 5, 2010

A modest drama about a suicide and its aftermath that never quite moves an audience as it should.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2010