Les Secrets de mon père

Another film from the market in Cannes whose closing credits outshine everything that came before. In the case of this biopic about a cartoonist’s coming of age and his relationship with his estranged father, who is a Holocaust survivor, the credits feature the subject’s original caricature drawings, which further put the generic visuals of this animated film to shame. Beyond that, My Father’s Secrets is a sad testament to the validity of the rule that little can reveal the creative powerlessness to express oneself through cinematic means such as a voiceover. In the end, the film is a poorly paced, unimaginative and unoriginal illustration of the work on which it’s based. [screening with English dubbing at the Marché du Film in Cannes] (21/05/2022)