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Family Therapy’ Opens in France on Aug. 27 as Early Reviews Diverge

Critics debate the film’s caustic style versus its promise of humanized family portraits.

Aliocha Schneider incarne la figure de l'étranger, fantasme de fils prodigue de la famille bourgeoise.
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Overview

  • Directed by Sonja Prosenc, the Slovenian family drama runs 2h02 and stars Aliocha Schneider and Marko Mandic.
  • Le Nouvel Obs critic Xavier Leherpeur gives it two stars, calling it a caustic farce that grows weary with insistent plotting and self-conscious stylization.
  • L’Humanité frames the release as a discovery, noting characters who gradually reveal themselves and become moving.
  • Coverage points to a storyline in which a father hoping to join a space trip attempts to reconnect with a long-neglected son.
  • The film dismantles the polished image of the perfect family through a stylized, farcical lens as it reaches French theaters this week.