Cannes. In Your Wake.

"Call it the festival of dysfunctional families: Nos Retrouvailles (In Your Wake), a French selection in Critics Week, explores the relationship between a father and his grown-up estranged son," writes Eric Kohn for indieWIRE. "Hardly a conventional reunion tale, Nos Retrouvailles adopts conventions of the thriller genre as a means of exploring personal anguish.... [Director David] Oelhoffen might be better suited with less ambitious projects, but Nos Retrouvailles is a solid calling card for them."

"Thoughtful widescreen lensing conveys dead-end urban isolation and thesps are fine, but character study's rewards are as elusive as the jackpot allegedly waiting in a minimally guarded warehouse on the periphery of Paris," writes Variety's Lisa Nesselson.

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Cannes @ 60. Index.

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Posted by dwhudson at May 29, 2007 4:25 AM