Comment j'ai tué mon père Reviews

Though it received many smashing reviews, Comment J'ai Tué Mon Pere, or How I Killed My Father as it was released in America, is not the equal to writer/director Anne Fontaine's previous film Dry Cleaning. However, the plot is very similar. Both feature a surprise guest and marital complications for the characters played by Charles Berling. In Comment, Berling is Jean-Luc, a shallow and reprehensible rich doctor, while his father Maurice (Michel Bouquet) is a mysterious character, charming to most people, but the viewer wonders what is up his sleeve. Isa (Natacha Régnier) is the polar opposite of her character in the hit The Dreamlife of Angels, here unrecognizable from that performance. She plays a yuppie housewife who takes a liking to Maurice, as he squabbles with his two sons. The other son, Patrick (Stephane Guillon), is a terrible standup comic and his act, which pops up throughout the film, is baffling and about the furthest thing from funny. None of the characters are terribly interesting except for Maurice. Still, the movie has several plot twists and plenty of drama, and is held together by Bouquet's superb performance.