The father of my children

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Movie
German title The father of my children
Original title Le père de mes enfants
Country of production France , Germany
original language French , English
Publishing year 2009
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mia Hansen-Løve
script Mia Hansen-Løve
production David Thion ,
Philippe Martin ,
Oliver Damian
music Christian Garcia
camera Pascal Auffray
cut Marion Monnier
occupation

The father of my children is a French drama from 2009. The young French woman Mia Hansen-Løve is responsible for the script and direction . The film shows a family coping with their father's suicide. The film premiered on May 17, 2009 at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Grégoire is a loving family man, but fails professionally as a film producer. Too many projects are running in parallel, the films are not very profitable and the production of the eccentric filmmaker Stig Janson in Sweden consumes more money than planned - the financial means have been exhausted. When the debts get out of hand, Grégoire sees no other way out than to take her own life. His wife Sylvia and their three daughters Clémence, Valentine and Billie remain stunned.

After the widow has overcome the first pain of grief, she takes the management of the production company Moon Films into her own hands. Because she knows how much Grégoire the current productions mean, she tries to find ways out of the crisis. Meanwhile, their eldest daughter, Clémence, learns that her father has an illegitimate son whom he is hiding from his children. Despite Sylvia's great commitment, she can no longer avert bankruptcy. She hands the office over to the bankruptcy trustee. Sylvia finally considers turning her back on France and going to her homeland, Italy, even if her children want to stay in Paris and thus at their father's grave. In order to gain some distance, the family will initially travel for two weeks.

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The budget was around 2.5 million euros. The box office result is just under 500,000 euros.

The film premiered on May 17, 2009 at the Cannes Film Festival. The cinema release in Germany was on May 20, 2010.

The filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve was inspired to make this film by the suicide of the film producer Humbert Balsan († 2005). His wife also worked in Ognon Pictures' office after her husband's death.

Trivia
  • The performers of Grégoire and Clémence are father and daughter in real life too.
  • The film posters on the walls in Grégoire's office show exclusively non-existent films, but with actors who actually exist, e.g. B. Isabelle Huppert and Constance Rousseau.

Film music

  • Que sera sera - Doris Day
  • South American Folk Song - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
  • Egyptian reggae - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
  • Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
  • Blue sleeves - Cliff Aungier
  • The Girls in Paris - Lee Hazlewood
  • Berceuse - Duncan Browne

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Father of My Children . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 594 K).
  2. ↑ The father of my children on allocine.fr
  3. ↑ a b http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=11131
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356928/releaseinfo
  5. ↑ allocine.fr sections "Humbert l'absent" and "Qui était Humbert Balsan"
  6. ↑ allocine.fr section "Pas qu'un Lencquesaing"
  7. ↑ allocine.fr section "Projets imaginaires"