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06/16/07
Romulus, My Father (2008)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:5
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Actor Richard Roxburgh makes a smooth transition to directing with this moving drama adapted from Raimond Gaita's memoir. Eric Bana (MUNICH) stars as Romulus, a Yugoslavian man who struggles to... [More]
Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Russell Dykstra
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Reviews for Romulus, My Father
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10/18/08
Builds up an emotional head of steam that draws audiences towards it.
06/14/08
For all its sad moments, Romulus, My Father is a love story between father and son kept aloft by unalloyed admiration.
02/29/08
Top CriticFor all that it's well made and expertly acted, the film keeps its audience at arm's length, letting viewers observe without offering an emotional portal of entrance.
02/29/08
It's not clear what we're supposed to take away from the film.
02/29/08
The darkness of the story is counterbalanced by some of the most radiantly beautiful cinematography I've seen in a long time.
02/29/08
The picture has a tranquil, gentle nature about it that's almost soothing, while offering examples of familial terror Roxburgh processes superbly...there's much to admire.
02/29/08
Gaita clearly had a rough childhood, but while the tragedies of his young life pile up on screen the drama remains frustratingly inert.
02/29/08
Romulus, My Father is a stacked deck determined to make you feel bad, but it rarely makes you feel anything else.
02/28/08
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06/16/07
Helming bow by Oz thesp Richard Roxburgh predictably leaves actors plenty of room, but the literary tone and episodic structure rob the pic of dramatic momentum.
06/11/07
Top CriticIt's fitting perhaps that a film based on Rai Gaita's memoirs should play rather like a string of memories; we don't remember the past in a linear story but as patches, chapters, moments, sometimes merely fractions of their entirety.
06/11/07
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