Here is the short introduction of the new film 'Family Law'
December 31, 2006 (Press Release) --
Ariel Perelman (Daniel Hendler) is a son and a father, and uncertain who that makes him. He finds his place between his 65-year-old father, Bernardo, and his 3-year-old son, Gaston, in "Family Law," Argentina's entry in the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Writer-director Daniel Burman crafts a pleasant, crisply paced look at a wary character who bears a family resemblance to himself, a young Jewish father in Buenos Aires with a lawyer father.
Burman left his own father's law office for filmmaking, while Perelman Jr. shares an office with Perelman Sr. Junior works primarily as a law school lecturer, which also suits his role as the narrator of "Family Law." For all the detail he imparts about his father's life, Perelman feels distant from the man always addressed with his surname by clients and intimates alike. The sonalso is addressed as "Perelman," even by his wife. "That's autobiographical," notes Burman. "My 3-year-old son calls me Burman."
In his press notes, Burman says that after he finished the film, he came across a comment by French writer/ director Francois Truffaut: "He said that the most important moment in a man's life is when he discovers that his children are more important to him than his parents. And I instantly thought that was the story line of 'Family Law.'"
Just as Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Leaud to play a Truffaut-like character in a series of semi-autobiographical dramas, Burman casts Daniel Hendler in "Waiting for the Messiah" (2000) and "Lost Embrace" (2004). In those comic dramas of self-discovery, a single Jewish man seeks a career beyond the family business. In "Family Law," Hendler's character matures a bit and marries his one-time student Sandra (Julieta Diaz), a Pilates instructor, although he remains prone to contemplating his life while laying down still dressed in his shirt and tie.
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Burman left his own father's law office for filmmaking, while Perelman Jr. shares an office with Perelman Sr. Junior works primarily as a law school lecturer, which also suits his role as the narrator of "Family Law." For all the detail he imparts about his father's life, Perelman feels distant from the man always addressed with his surname by clients and intimates alike. The sonalso is addressed as "Perelman," even by his wife. "That's autobiographical," notes Burman. "My 3-year-old son calls me Burman."
In his press notes, Burman says that after he finished the film, he came across a comment by French writer/ director Francois Truffaut: "He said that the most important moment in a man's life is when he discovers that his children are more important to him than his parents. And I instantly thought that was the story line of 'Family Law.'"
Just as Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Leaud to play a Truffaut-like character in a series of semi-autobiographical dramas, Burman casts Daniel Hendler in "Waiting for the Messiah" (2000) and "Lost Embrace" (2004). In those comic dramas of self-discovery, a single Jewish man seeks a career beyond the family business. In "Family Law," Hendler's character matures a bit and marries his one-time student Sandra (Julieta Diaz), a Pilates instructor, although he remains prone to contemplating his life while laying down still dressed in his shirt and tie.
Source: http://www.msn.com
POSTED BY BILL STAMETS
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