Fathers & Sons (2010 film)
Fathers and Sons | |
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Directed by | Carl Bessai |
Produced by |
Carl Bessai Jason James |
Written by | Carl Bessai |
Starring |
Benjamin Ratner Jay Brazeau Stephen Lobo Manoj Sood Tyler Labine Vincent Gale |
Music by | Schaun Tozer |
Cinematography | Carl Bessai |
Edited by | Mark Shearer |
Production company |
Ravenwest Films |
Distributed by | Kinosmith |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Fathers & Sons is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai and released in 2010.[1] An unofficial sequel to his 2008 film Mothers & Daughters, it used a similar process of improvisational character development to dramatize several stories of relationships between fathers and sons.[2]
Bernie (Benjamin Ratner) meets his estranged father Anton (Jay Brazeau) for the first time at his mother's funeral; Kama (Stephen Lobo) is an accountant who is embarrassed to introduce his fiancée (Sonja Bennett) to his flamboyant gay Bollywood choreographer father Satish (Manoj Sood); Viv (Viv Leacock) and his father Blu (Blu Mankuma) don't see eye to eye about money; Vince (Vincent Gale), Sean (Tyler Labine), Hrothgar (Hrothgar Matthews) and Tom (Tom Scholte) are four brothers, not especially close, who are in for a surprise at the reading of their late father's will.[3]
The film won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film in 2010.[4]
Bessai followed up with a third film in his "Family Trilogy", Sisters & Brothers, in 2011.[5]
References
- ↑ "Carl Bessai explores father-son dynamic in new film at VIFF". The Globe and Mail, September 29, 2010.
- ↑ "Carl Bessai’s Fathers & Sons is a cultural mashup". The Georgia Straight, January 19, 2011.
- ↑ "What a savvy ensemble; Stories that go down dark roads deftly handled". The Province, November 17, 2010.
- ↑ "Vancouver Film Critics' Circle awards". Alaska Highway News, January 12, 2011.
- ↑ "Bessai thought it best to just keep working on Fathers & Sons sequel". The Province, January 20, 2011.
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