À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
Ishii Yūichi owns the rent-a-family company Family Romance, LLC (Limited Liability Company) in Tokyo. He and his staff, subjects of an extensive 2018 New Yorker portrait, specialize in acting as the family members who cannot take on their expected roles – often due to addiction or shame. If it hadn't already existed, Werner Herzog would undoubtedly have been proud to have created it himself. A small step then to cast Ishii as himself, with intriguing, sometimes moving results.
At a busy spot in Tokyo, Ishii waits for young Mahiro (12). He has been contracted by Mahiro's mother to act as the father the girl has never known. She seems to realize nothing and their clumsy, bitter-sweet relationship is central to the film. Herzog alternates this tale with showing the work process, the detailed preparations, but also the reasons why people turn to Family Romance, LLC for help.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
Read more about this programmeA wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.
76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020