In Memory Of My Father
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Time Out says
Tue Jun 3 2008
If you’re a fan of jaundiced views of Hollywood or unedifying portraits of dysfunctional families, look no further than this debut from writer-director Christopher Jaymes. His hand-held, DV-shot black comedy was made over five days in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, where the youngest son Chris (Jaymes) is filming the last hours of his dying film-producer father (David Austin).Initially, the household is occupied only by the father’s young lover Judy (Judy Greer) and Chris’s volatile friend Pat (Pat Healy), but soon the place fills with a succession of feuding family and friends, each one more obnoxious than the last. Jaymes, both as the director of the film and the film-within-a-film does derive the odd moment of droll, absurd comedy at these sad people’s expense, but overall his film plays like a Cassavetes-lite ensemble film workshop, dubiously scored to Belle and Sebastian.
Author: Wally Hammond
Release details
UK release:
Fri Jun 6 2008
Duration:
96 mins
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