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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 29 m
Family Romance, LLC

Summary Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Directed By: Werner Herzog

Written By: Werner Herzog

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 29 m

Family Romance, LLC

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings
5.8
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Summary Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Directed By: Werner Herzog

Written By: Werner Herzog

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
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35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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91
Jul 8, 2020
In the current moment, with our wary physical distancing and awkward artificial socializing, Family Romance LLC’s gaze into the uncanny valley absolutely chimes with the times.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 13, 2020
It might be staged, but it has a scrappy, fly-on-the-wall feel.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 3, 2020
Fans of Herzog — and that really should be all of you — should seek it out.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
70
May 22, 2019
A curious little meditation on the extent to which humans will go to make connections, and on the commodification of everything up to and including love, it is a fascinating film that will never be confused with one of Herzog’s major works. But it nonetheless has moments of subtle and quintessentially Herzogian rhapsody.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 2, 2020
A compelling curio from Werner Herzog, who investigates a strange real-life phenomenon through a fictional lens. It's worth watching, especially if you enjoy Herzog's lateral take on life, but it's hard not to wish he'd just made it as a straight documentary.
By Dan Jolin FULL REVIEW
60
May 20, 2019
The “LLC” in the film’s title is a clue that the movie wasn’t conceived purely in a spirit of empathy, although Herzog’s humor is good-natured enough. If anything, Family Romance is just the latest iteration of a uniquely human desire to replicate the relationships we can’t control in our lives.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
58
Jul 2, 2020
Conversely, a more straightforward documentary might address the bigger questions Herzog barely grazes in fictionalization. Family Romance, LLC straddles the line between the two tacts and finds no ecstatic truth there.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Skellig Rock
Release Date Jul 3, 2020
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Sakhalin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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