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A Loving Father (2002)
"Aime ton père" (original title)

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While the whole world thinks writer Léo Shepherd is dead, he is kidnapped by his son Paul.

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Leo Shepherd
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Paul
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Virginia
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Arthur
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Marthe
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Salma
Frédéric Polier ...
Andre
Pierre-Alexandre Crevaux ...
Paul, Age 8
Pippa Schallier ...
Virginia, Age 11
Johanna Mohs ...
Pippi
Jacques Frantz ...
Antoine Levy
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Sven Boland
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Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father. Written by Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)

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Director self-therapy
30 March 2004 | by (Budapest) – See all my reviews

This piece can hardly be regarded as movie: some aspects suggests it is intended to be one (actors, story, materials used etc.), but actually it is self-therapy effort for director Jacob Berger, whose father was John Berger well known English writer. It seems that the father figure (or at lest his artistic success) suppressed the talent of his son, and he wanted to release himself from this pressure by talking about it. But alas he used movie as a medium instead of visiting a psychiatrist: his problem remains personal, we can not relate to it. As a movie it is very poor, full of improbabilities, primitive psychology, and one-dimensional characters. I do not think anyone can profit from seeing this movie. One from twenty-five stars.


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