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      His Brother

      Released Apr 2, 2004 1h 28m Drama List
      92% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 67% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A gravely ill man (Bruno Todeschini) leaves the hospital and moves to a seaside house with his younger sibling (Éric Caravaca). Read More Read Less
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      Son Frère movingly examines fraternal bonds thrown into relief through a man's desperate reckoning with his own looming mortality.

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      Empire Magazine Rated: 4/5 Apr 1, 2006 Full Review Geoff Pevere Toronto Star The movie brings disease back to metaphoric ground zero and, in the process, links the sick and the healthy in one significant but often overlooked manner: We're all prisoners of our own bodies. Rated: 3/5 Dec 10, 2004 Full Review Rick Groen Globe and Mail An observant little film that plays like a poignant tude. Rated: 3/4 Dec 10, 2004 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net One of the best films about such a deceptively simple thing as brotherly love to have come out of France in quite a while. Apr 1, 2007 Full Review Liz Braun Jam! Movies While visually impressive -- the film won the Silver Bear for best director at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival -- Son Frere is draining to look at. Rated: 3/5 Dec 10, 2004 Full Review Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) It features two of the least interesting characters in recent memory. Rated: 2/4 May 21, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      dave s His Brother is the seemingly simple story of two estranged brothers who reunite in the face of death. Thomas, suffering from a rare blood disease, reaches out to his brother Luc, who he apparently abandoned years earlier due to Luc's homosexuality, in order to assist him in coping with his illness. The film is an unrelentingly somber affair as the characters try desperately to come to terms with mortality, the nature of brotherhood, and wasted time, among other things. Other than the strange inclusion of a Marianne Faithfull song in a weird hallucinatory scene that totally disrupts the flow of the movie, it is a well-executed and impactful examination of life and death. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member French cinema is at it again. Two brothers, distant for far too long reunited for a very sad reason. I don't know there were parts about this that I liked and some parts that simply didn't work for me. I could understand the relationship of the brothers and all that kept them separated but this didn't touch me that much, I didn't feel them that much, I couldn't relate to them. Siblings can be harsh sometimes but they are family and that's what we need in our toughest times. That's what this movie is about. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Son Frere offers a good case study on damaged familial bond. Two brothers forged a rather unlikely reunion when the elder one fell sick on thrombocytopenia. The premise is rife for sentimentality but what unfolds here is an unresolved mess, which offers no easy road to redemption. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow and simple storyline, but very well done artistically. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Una bella reflexión sobre esas enfermedades que parecen eternas y sobre la relación entre hermanos en un mundo en que la homosexualidad pasa a un quintísimo plano. La real naturaleza de la cinta nos lleva a deshumanizarnos para volver a humanizarnos, ver lo bueno que puede tener la vida, que la vida incluye sufrimiento pero sobre todo que podemos luchar muchísimo pero no podemos manejar la vida en sí. Grandes actuaciones y una gran y celebrada dirección. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Too depressing for my taste and void of all emotions excepting sadness, anger, and pity. I can't even recall one really happy moment in the show and I felt as if the two brothers still had several issues left unresolved. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A gravely ill man (Bruno Todeschini) leaves the hospital and moves to a seaside house with his younger sibling (Éric Caravaca).
      Director
      Patrice Chéreau
      Screenwriter
      Patrice Chéreau, Anne-Louise Trividic
      Distributor
      Strand Releasing
      Production Co
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 2, 2004, Original
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 1, 2007
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $22.5K
      Runtime
      1h 28m
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Dolby SRD
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)