Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘The Father’

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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, the sunny proverb goes. But what if life gives you inedibly sour quinces instead? The father-son odd-couple road trip comedy gets an appealingly deadpan, …

’s third feature, a film that takes the bittersweet fruits of its funny, sad, silly situations, and eventually, after many a comical false start, makes jam.

The rather meek Pavel’s obviously long-strained relationship with his firebrand artist father is neatly delineated in a few choice scenes thereafter: Vassil undercuts his son at every opportunity, his bluster taking on a keen, nasty edge in the maelstrom of clearly genuine grief. For his part, Pavel bottles up his resentment until he no longer can, and it pours out of him in a tirade that takes swipes at his father’s efficacy as family breadwinner, and even his political principles.

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