Mystery lovers will delight in the sophisticated murder scheme, oenophiles will love the Wine Expo atmosphere, and admirers of restrained menace will lose themselves in the icy pools of Arestrup's eyes.
Overview
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son...
Director and cast
- Gilles Legrand Director
- Lorànt Deutsch as Martin de Marseul
- Niels Arestrup as Paul de Marseul
- Patrick Chesnais as François Amelot
- Anne Marivin as Alice
- Nicolas Bridet as Philippe Amelot
- Valérie Mairesse as Madeleine Amelot
- Jean-Marc Roulot as Docteur Vermont
- Urbain Cancelier as Lacourt père
- Xavier Robic as Lacourt fils
- Nicolas Marié as Le Notaire
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
How much you enjoy "You Will Be My Son" depends on how much you can take an unbearable, arrogant jerk as your lead character.
Gilles Legrand's draggy melodrama about miserable characters who persist in their folly and never wise up is strictly vin ordinaire.
French director and co-writer Gilles Legrand shows great mastery of tone and pacing in his third feature, which begins life as a domestic drama set at a family-owned vineyard and slowly morphs into a tense thriller.
A strongly acted, character-driven melodrama, concerned with the dynamics of family in general and father-son issues in particular, it presents situations so emotionally supercharged that the whole story could have come straight out of Balzac.
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