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Family Is Family

Family Is Family

Comedy · 2018

Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.

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Family Is Family

2018 Comedy 1h 47m

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5.8 / 10

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Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Dany Boon

Written by

Dany Boon · Sarah Kaminsky

Dany Boon

Dany Boon

Valentin Duquesne, aka Valentin D.

Line Renaud

Line Renaud

Suzanne Duquesne, Valentin's mother

Laurence Arné

Laurence Arné

Constance Brandt, wife of Valentin

Valérie Bonneton

Valérie Bonneton

Louloute, Valentin's ex-fiancée

Guy Lecluyse

Guy Lecluyse

Gustave, Valentin's brother

François Berléand

François Berléand

Alexander, Constance's father

Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard

Joseph Duquesne, Valentine's father

Court is in session

Put Family Is Family on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.