Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.... (Full plot summary below)
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Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline, whose mother is in the next bed. Van wants to get his grandma out of the old people's home. Aline will help. Actually, Van, whose mother left, years ago, is looking for a real family life.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzNot meant for family viewing as the title might indicate. |
| User ReviewGarrett TOne of Atom Egoyan first movies and in the way he presented to the audience tonight the most personal work of his directorial career. Great work!! |
| User ReviewAndy MUnusual, and at times rather slow, which will put many people off. I abandoned watching this the first time myself. But next time around, and subsequently, it's understated way of putting across quite profound emotional content struck a chord with me. It's hard to describe as a narrative, it's more a feeling that is conveyed. Very worthwhile film. |
| User ReviewELENA GBad world and bad interiors. Bad memories. Video rawness. This movie stays with you for a while, A quiet grimness |
| User ReviewMattias EBack in '87, before he made the dubious Exotica which damn near destroyed his carreer, Atom Egoyan was the shit. And Family Viewing reallly brings something fresh to the screen. Highly experimental in form but still accessible. The acting might seem a bit amateurish but it doesn't bother me. It might even be intentional for what I know. Having the actors perform like robots goes well with the air of the film as a whole. |
| User ReviewSean CEarly Atom Egoyan movie here. Very interesting experiment. I liked the way the father and son speak to each other so unnaturally, like badly acted television. The only time the father shows any passion when he's watching TV. This is a good example of showing a feeling of disconnection in a movie. |
| User ReviewJames HVery strange film, not unusual for Atom Egoyan however. Interesting subject matter but a very negative film and it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. The acting is fine, just not a cheery film at all, but it is well made and the direction is thoughtful. |
| User ReviewHindénbörg EA bewildering mess of a movie that looks at a twisted family dynamic that is more about power than nurture. The film spent all of its time moving the narrative, such as it was, forward, and left the viewer trying to piece together the few small clues to the back story of these characters and how they wound up in these various configurations. The synopsis does a better job of helping one to understand the basic framework than the film itself does. In order to understand why these characters behave as they do, one is forced to invent motivations that are not evident. At times, and this might be due to the film's vintage, the sets and the stance of the characters, even the camera angles, reminded this viewer of soap opera television. A lot of the scenes were of video footage, or of the characters watching video footage. The acting was lackluster, the script rather stilted and the story hard to make sense of. Yet through it all, one begins to pull for the young man in his quest to personally care for his grandmother, against the wishes and the machinations of his father. Although the title indicates otherwise, this is not one for family viewing. Not a lot of skin, but some disturbing images and adult themes run throughout. |
| User ReviewWalter M[font=Century Gothic]In "Family Viewing" Van(Aidan Tierney) and Aline(Arsinee Khanjian) meet at a retirement home while visiting their respective loved ones. Aline works as a phone sex operator which cannot support her mother's care while Van is the only member of his family to visit his grandmother, his mother having no contact with the rest of the family. Van's father, Stan(David Hemblen), has since remarried a younger woman, Sandra(Gabrielle Rose).(Stan works in electronics and has a tendency to videotape everything.) Aline receives a lucrative offer to meet a client in Montreal for a week and asks Van to look after her mother while she is gone...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Family Viewing" is not as good as the other early Atom Egoyan movies I have been watching recently but it still has its share of worthwhile moments. This movie is also about family and disconnectedness, but there is less of a story than usual. And the videotaping of sex is not that weird, as long as everybody agrees to it and they are all having fun.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic](And on that note, I am on vacation and will return to these pages on Tuesday, September 26.)[/font] |
| User ReviewLee MVery strange film, not unusual for Atom Egoyan however. Interesting subject matter but a very negative film and it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. The acting is fine, just not a cheery film at all, but it is well made and the direction is thoughtful. |
