Son Frere
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 25, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruno Todeschini & Eric Caravaca | |
Performer: | Nathalie Boutefeu, Maurice Garrel, Sylvain Jacques, Catherine Ferran, Fred Ulysse & Antoinette Moya | |
Directed by | Patrice Chéreau | |
Screenwriting by | Anne-Louise Trividic & Patrice Chéreau | |
Produced by | Pierre Chevalier | |
Director of Photography: | Eric Gautier | |
Executive Production by | Joseph Strub |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Hushed, clinical, grimly paced, and moving.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
The movie brings disease back to metaphoric ground zero and, in the process, links the sick and the healthy in one significant but often overlooked manner: We're all prisoners of our own bodies.
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Toronto Star
Rating: C+ --
Somber, almost clinically severe...ultimately 'Son Frere,' for all its admirable qualities, fails to move us.
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One Guy's Opinion
Rating: 3/4 --
Its laser-like focus on these two brothers, coming back together just as death is about to pull them apart, is compelling and emotionally honest.
Salt Lake Tribune
Both [Todeschini] and Caravaca do a great deal with very little histrionics to make auds care for two brothers who are clearly re-learning to appreciate their family ties, but who only rarely confront each other about their respective emotional journeys.
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Variety
Just the quiet drama of two brothers, briefly reunited in their old Nantes neighborhood. Just the small essential struggle of one man, trying to make sense of a life before it's gone.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Fine performances, but it feels like they are being reined in to keep their emotional distance - from each other and from the audience. Still... it can be devastating.
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TheMovieChicks.com
Product Description:
This harrowing family tale about illness and grief is directed by the commanding Patrice Chereau (QUEEN MARGOT, INTIMACY). Captivating at every moment, the film thrives on the emotional intensity of its characters. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been diagnosed with a strange blood disease, and he calls on his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca) for help. Though they both live in Paris, they are not close, using Luc's homosexuality as the barrier between them. Stereotypes are dissipated through these characters--Luc is gay yet self-assured and healthy; Thomas is straight yet self-defeating and sick. The chronology jerks forward months at a time--February, July, March, and so forth--as if time is on pause, and it might just stop. Thomas's illness is unpredictable, and his hospital stays happen unexpectedly, keeping everyone--parents, Thomas' girlfriend Claire (Nathalie Boutefeu), and Luc's boyfriend Vincent--in a state of constant anxiety. With painful-to-watch hospital scenes and moments of tortured emotional outpouring, SON FRERE is a poignant portrait of coping with human mortality.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 69,908
- UPC: 712267240425
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