The first ten minutes of My Father's Forest are decisive. The evening begins as in all families, around a table. A little girl on her lap, Jimmy, her father - Alban Lenoir, astonishing after her performance in Les Crevettes pailletées - begins to tell a tale about a cat. Transported, the three children at table forget to eat their pasta. There is a knock on the door, it is Jimmy's employer. Carole, his wife (Ludivine Sagnier) changes his face, she refuses to let him in. Too late, the good-natured atmosphere fell.
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We talk to children about death, sex, mistreatment, violence, but we still very rarely talk to them about mental illness, when they are the first witnesses
Vero Cratzborn, directorLike a grain of sand, there has been one word too many and the contained tension bursts, Jimmy bangs his fist on the table, frightens the kids. Then, against all odds, after a few seconds, becomes tender again. Kiss his wife. Soothes its offspring. The situation returns to "normal". Brief respite. Jimmy's anger is only the first sign of a succession of others, more and more sudden and incomprehensible. Gina, 15, the oldest
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