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  • 2016
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2016
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him she was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the ...

Directed By: Tom Fassaert

  • 2016
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2016
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 50 m

A Family Affair

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him she was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the ...

Directed By: Tom Fassaert

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
75
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14% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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90
Sep 15, 2016
This deceptively artless, journal-style film has no need for any carefully sculpted twists; rather, it’s the sheer unpredictable perversity of human nature that takes the breath away at key points in Fassaert’s unsettling, perhaps unsolvable, inquiry.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 15, 2016
A Family Affair is by turns fascinating and futile, running the risk that by exposing the heartbreak of one family it will repel all those with their own unresolvable family sadness.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 15, 2016
The film is much more about the way in which people perceive one another than about the way people really are.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 15, 2016
It’s a potent psychodrama, pitting Marianne’s reality against the one Fassaert is documenting
By Abby Garnett FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 15, 2016
Tom gradually chips away at the preening facade to seemingly unmask a complex woman whose self-image was largely shaped by her appearance-obsessed father. However, the deeper he digs, the more elusive his subject becomes.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 15, 2016
Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.
By Wes Greene FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 15, 2016
By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Clin d'oeil Films, Conijn Film
Release Date Sep 16, 2016
Duration 1 h 50 m
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Website http://www.conijnfilm.com/portfolio/a-family-affair/
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Awards

Biografilm Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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