As elegantly made as the fine wines that fuel the narrative.

| Aug 22, 2019

You Will Be My Son is the sort of dark and twisted familial drama that only the French seem capable of fully realising.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's both an entertaining drama and a snappy little postcard of France.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2013

How much you enjoy "You Will Be My Son" depends on how much you can take an unbearable, arrogant jerk as your lead character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2013

Gilles Legrand's draggy melodrama about miserable characters who persist in their folly and never wise up is strictly vin ordinaire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2013

French director and co-writer Gilles Legrand shows great mastery of tone and pacing in his third feature, which begins life as a domestic drama set at a family-owned vineyard and slowly morphs into a tense thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2013

A strongly acted, character-driven melodrama, concerned with the dynamics of family in general and father-son issues in particular, it presents situations so emotionally supercharged that the whole story could have come straight out of Balzac.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2013

Headed by a pungent patriarchal performance by Arestrup. . . in beautiful vineyards. . .how far ambition trumps family ties is unpredictable. . .into a tense tale of revenge.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 21, 2013

It's an entertaining melodrama of the old school that plays out with the clockwork inevitability of a "Columbo" episode.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2013

The parallel dramas underline the universal theme of primal jealousy, as fathers confront the prospect of their sons superseding them.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Everything is explicit; no one makes an unexpected move.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Legrand pays homage to this talent by packaging him with a fine script, a strong supporting cast and a rich production that make this fraught wine world both thrilling and chilling.

| Aug 15, 2013

You Will Be My Son endlessly spins its wheels, offering up scene after scene of Deutsch screwing up, or just plain existing, and Arestrup tossing deeply disgusted glances in his direction.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2013

A kind of parable that is as much an effective portrait of intergenerational struggle as it is a slick psychological thriller with Shakespearian shadings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2013

Evoking a contemporary fable but unfolding like a thriller, You Will Be My Son is most of all a devastatingly realistic depiction of the festering resentments shared between a father and son.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2013

The tyranny of fatherhood doesn't have a more intimidating embodiment than Niels Arestrup.

| Aug 12, 2013

For all of the director's willingness to explore his characters' unexpected depths, he's still hamstrung by his perpetually tasteful cinema-of-quality aesthetic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2013

Great talent and a monstrous ego often come as a package deal, as illustrated by this insightful, taut 2011 drama set in Bordeaux.

| Jul 25, 2013

...a criss-crossing and parallel father son story with a gruff, larger-than-life performance from the great Arestrup and a highly satisfying unexpected climactic development that's weakened by the extreme difference between de Marseul pere and fils.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2013

The story is Shakespearean in tone and mood as the elder attempts to thwart the younger and the younger fights against his father's maneuverings.

| Original Score: B | Jul 11, 2013