Romulus, My Father (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Richard Roxburgh

Escritores:

Nick Drake (writer)
Raimond Gaita (memoir)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

31 mayo 2007 (Australia)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Plot:

It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Madness | Romanian | German | Old Woman

Premios:

8 wins & 23 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Australian cinema tour de force within a modest, yet unpleasant display

Reparto

Eric Bana	...	Romulus
Franka Potente	...	Christina
Marton Csokas	...	Hora
Kodi Smit-McPhee	...	Raimond
Russell Dykstra	...	Mitru
Jacek Koman	...	Vacek
Alethea McGrath	...	Mrs. Lillie
Terry Norris	...	Tom Lillie
Esme Melville	...	Miss Collard
Nick Peace	...	Teacher
Geoffrey Graham	...	Man in Cafe
Trevor Nesbitt	...	Man in Cafe
Zoe Boesen	...	Young Woman in Cafe
Briega Young	...	Young Woman in Cafe
Laurie Jensen	...	Taxi Driver

También conocida como:

Rómulo, mi padre (Argentina) (cable TV title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, some violence and brief language.

Duración:

104 min | Canada:109 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

Australia

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Canada:14A | USA:R | Argentina:13 | Singapore:M18 | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Compañía:

Arenafilm

Trivialidades:

First film for both Kodi Smit-McPhee and directorial debut for Richard Roxburgh (though he has previously worked as a theater director).

Errores:

Anacronismos: In the scene in the diner in which Christina plays a record on the jukebox, the jukebox is marked "Stereophonic." In 1962, stereophonic jukeboxes didn't exist and 45 rpm records (which is what the jukebox in the film plays) were mono only.

Citas:

Mitru: I wish it could be the way it used to be. When we were friends.

Banda de Sonido:

Real Wild Child

Australian cinema tour de force within a modest, yet unpleasant display

A broken family have a growing boy at his early teenage years and have no sense of responsibility to grow a child. Considering that both mother and the father is uneducated and clueless, they live in a farm before the World War II; we still have no idea upon why they ruin a child's life making a havoc of his psychology.

Proved by adversity the family have nothing to distinguish their boy, nor to give anything to make him happy, nor to teach him anything precisely good. Father gets to figure out that the kid needs a college education, and sends him to a college. Then after the suicide of the mother, the boy gets closer to his father. A happy ending occurs and mops up all the pain and unpleasant situations out of the movie, and hopefully out of the boy's memory. Thus, his father taught him one thing, a very important one, how to be patient of adversity.

For a tough story to put on silver screen, the actors' performances are somewhat exhilarating; and that's the mainspring to tolerate this movie. Within low-budget movies with no technical endeavors, if you like to witness a modest triumph of a child, much better than My Father Romulus, I advise you to watch "I am David".