Family issues in First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
By
Derek Malcolm
20 Nov 2009
This smash hit at the French box office and winner of three César awards is an extended portrait of an ordinary family, sketched out over 12 years.
Mother (Zabou Breitman) thinks her husband (Jacques Gamblin) doesn’t fancy her any more and has frequent spats with both her daughter and her sons.
Nothing seems to be going right, yet a hidden kind of equilibrium is always there.
Director and writer Rémi Bezançon has a view of family life at odds with that of our own curmudgeon Philip Larkin, and the final reel proves the point.
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