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Directed by | Anne Fontaine |
Produced by | Philippe Carcassonne |
Written by | Jacques Fieschi Anne Fontaine |
Starring |
Charles Berling Michel Bouquet Natacha Régnier |
Music by | Jocelyn Pook |
Cinematography | Jean-Marc Fabre |
Edited by | Guy Lecorne |
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Ciné B
France 2 Cinéma |
Distributed by | Pathé |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $4.4 million |
Box office | $3 million |
How I Killed My Father (French: Comment j'ai tué mon père) is a 2001 French thriller-drama film directed by Anne Fontaine.
Jean-Luc (Charles Berling), an established gerontologist, considers his father Maurice dead. He lost him, when he left his wife and children to work as a physician in Africa. Suddenly the father appears again. Maurice (Michel Bouquet) is bankrupt and moves into his son's home for several days. He annoys Jean-Luc with compliments that sound like accusations. Or is it Jean-Luc that always hears irony? His wife likes the senior immediately, and even Jean-Luc's younger brother accepts him. Jean-Luc would like to kill his father but...