Le père de mes enfants
Feature Film, FR/DE 2009, Farbe, 112 min., OmdU
Diagonale 2015
Director, Script: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss, Eric Elmosnino, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Frot
Camera: Pascal Auffray
Editor: Marion Monnier
Location Sound: Vincent Vatoux, Olivier Goinard
Production Design: Mathieu Menut
Costumes: Bethsabée Thiercelin
Producers: David Thion, Philippe Martin, Oliver Damian
Production: Les Films Pelléas
Hansen-Løve’s debut was a memorial to Humbert Balsan; her second feature film evoked the producer, who committed suicide in 2005, in fiction. What happened before and after this cut is told almost incidentally: how wife and daughter wrest a family life from him, although the telephone is constantly on his ear, until it seems – somewhat pointedly – hopeless; how one liquidates a firm, and how children grow up. (ir)