Family Law ( Derecho de familia ) ( Les Lois de la famille )

Family Law (DVD) (*)

~~$20.99~~ $14.97

Original Title: Derecho de familia
Alternate Title: Les Lois de la famille
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Daniel Burman

Written By:
Daniel Burman

Actors:
Daniel Hendler ..... Ariel Perelman
Arturo Goetz ..... Bernardo Perelman
Eloy Burman ..... Gastón Perelman
Julieta Díaz ..... Sandra
Adriana Aizemberg ..... Norita
Jean Pierre Reguerraz ..... tío Eduardo Perelman
Dmitry Rodnoy ..... Germán
Luis Albornoz ..... Echechuny
Darío Lagos ..... tío Mamuñe
Damián Dreizik ..... Damidjian
Gerardo del Águila ..... Peruano
Eduardo Santoro ..... Santoro
Ismael Troitiño ..... Metrosexual
Pablo Razuk ..... Abogado
Marcos Montes ..... Abogado

Synopsis:

Like father like son: exploratory variations on that old saw are the thematic heart of the Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman's 'Family Law." The third installment of his semiautobiographical trilogy of films about fatherhood, which began six years ago with 'Waiting for the Messiah" and continued with 'Lost Embrace" in 2004, this delicate, bittersweet comedy prepares you for an eruption of high drama that never arrives. That withholding of catharsis is deliberate. In a printed interview that accompanies the film's production notes, Mr. Burman comes forth as an outspoken champion of understatement. The signals conveyed by body language and silence, he maintains, are truer than the words that come out of people's mouths. And this likable, if undramatic film - the antithesis of Hollywood movies in which father-son Oedipal conflicts are resolved in embarrassing, teary-eyed clinches - makes a case for reticence.

Ariel Perelman is an attorney, like his father. And, because it is customary in Argentina to do so, the people refer to them both as Dr Perelman, regardless of whether they mean the father or the son. Yet it is not so much sharing the same name that bothers Perelman Junior as not knowing if he is beginning to look just like his father or at least, the exact opposite.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 May, 2008.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

The Best of Me (DVD)

The Wind (DVD)