A good movie

It is once again a rather obscure French movie which not much people have seen here in Listal. Basically, the biggest appeal was to see Gérard Depardieu alongside his son, Guillaume Depardieu, playing some fictional father and son. Obviously, you may think that the movie reflected their own relationship but, apparently, the director, Jacob Berger, was above all inspired by his relationship with his own father, John Berger, a famous British writer. Still, you can’t help thinking the Depardieus relationship must have influenced their performances and those performances were really solid. Indeed, Gérard Depardieu is pretty much a French icon nowadays, after more than 40 years at the top, and Guillaume Depardieu, while not as successful as his father, was one of the most interesting French actors of his generation, even though his personal life was more in the spotlights than his movies (he was a notorious drug addict for many years, after a motor accident, he spent a year in the hospital, got more than 15 surgical operations and 8 years later, he had his leg amputated because he could stand the pain anymore and finally, at only 37 years old, he died of pneunomia). Anyway, coming back to our main feature, even though it is nothing really amazing, it remains a decent drama and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

7/10