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The Father of My Children

On screen and real life father and daughter, Louis-Do and Alice de Lencquesaing in The Father of My Children As The Father of My Children  begins, we see Gregoire (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) walking around Paris, wielding a couple of cell phones in a constant relay of  conversations.   He has the sleekly-dressed and slightly unctuous tone of a film producer.  Little wonder then that we find out he is indeed a producer, head of the struggling Moon Films.   A call about housing a Korean film crew gives way to an update from the set of  Swedish auteur Stig Janson (Magne Brekke, looking and acting a bit like the lovechild of Klaus Kinski) who's way over budget, which gives way to a call to his family waiting patiently (they have had practice, obviously) at their country house.  So, is our Gregoire some sort of fast-talking schmuck?   A terrible father?   Is it a troubled family? ...