A French film producer (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) begins to buckle under the weight of his financial problems, taking care to conceal his growing desperation from his devoted wife and three daughters. This warm, understated 2009 drama by Mia Hansen-Love devotes roughly equal time to the main character’s work and home lives, which he keeps rigidly compartmentalized. When the two suddenly merge, one begins to ponder whether a man’s artistic legacy can ever be as important as that part of himself he invests in his family. In French with subtitles.
The Father of My Children
1 hour 48 min • 2009