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  • 2004
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2004
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m
Son frère

Summary Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother's homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc's contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. (Strand Releasing)

Directed By: Patrice Chéreau

Written By: Philippe Besson, Anne-Louise Trividic, Patrice Chéreau

  • 2004
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2004
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 32 m

Son frère

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother's homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc's contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. (Strand Releasing)

Directed By: Patrice Chéreau

Written By: Philippe Besson, Anne-Louise Trividic, Patrice Chéreau

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
78
90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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100
Beneath its surface of chronic suffering and hospital details, Chereau's best drama etches a humane, sensitive, and richly moving portrait of fraternal love struggling to mitigate human frailty.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
90
Stringent, clinical and almost unbearably moving.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
80
Chéreau's film is an unsentimental, almost uninflected, account of a preparation for death, told with a painful clarity that eventually bleeds into compassion.
By Dennis Lim FULL REVIEW
70
Chereau boldly risks alienating his audience by presenting serious illness and all its attendant indignities with an unflinching clarity that's becoming a hallmark of his work.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Todeschini has the most physically demanding role, with a gaunt face and ravaged body that utterly convinces of the brutality of the ailment.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
63
Chéreau keenly understands both his characters and their unwanted world, from the dehumanization that occurs the moment one enters a hospital to the hope and fear that take over when one leaves.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
60
While its two credible leads are certainly up to the challenge, there's a relentless claustrophobia that prevents the film from taking on a fully dimensional life of its own.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Azor Films, Love Streams Productions, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Canal+, Conseil Général de Loire-Atlantique
Release Date Apr 2, 2004
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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