Tag Archives: father-daughter

action, drama,, female director, female lead, first feature, y 8.5-8.9, z US

“First Match” by Olivia Newman (2018)

first feature

first match

One of the best father-daughter relationships! Fantastic work by Elvire Emanuelle. 
“A hard story about a young woman having to decide if she should destroy herself for the person who deserves it the least.” [Jessica Ritchey]

Cast: Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome, Jared Kemp
Director: Olivia Newman
Writer: Olivia Newman
Cinematographer: Ashley Connor
Edito: Tamara Meem

action, drama,, female director, female lead, first feature, y 8.5-8.9, z US

"First Match" by Olivia Newman (2018)

first feature

first match
One of the best father-daughter relationships! Fantastic work by Elvire Emanuelle. 
“A hard story about a young woman having to decide if she should destroy herself for the person who deserves it the least.” [Jessica Ritchey]
Cast: Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome, Jared Kemp
Director: Olivia Newman
Writer: Olivia Newman
Cinematographer: Ashley Connor
Edito: Tamara Meem

comedy, female director, female lead, first feature, y 6.5-6.9, z US

"Like Father" by Lauren Miller Rogen (2018)

first feature

Like Father
Has a similar plot but comes nowhere near Maren Ade’s powerful Toni Erdmann
Cast: Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Rogen, Zach Appelman, Paul W. Downs, Brittany Ross, Lenny Jacobson, Danielle Davenport
Director: Lauren Miller Rogen
Writers: Lauren Miller Rogen, Anders Bard
Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney
Editor: Mollie Goldstein
Composer: Roger Neill

7,0-7,9, biography, drama,, male director, true story

“The Glass Castle” by Destin Cretton (USA, 2017)

A few recent movies on fatherhood

The Glass Castle

Love your father no matter what / You can’t live with yourself and reject where you come from… These are a few of the messages in this ode to the family that is in fact a glorification of patriarchy and that ends in syrupy sentimentality / Ill-adapted flashbacks

Cast: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield, Ella Anderson, Sarah Snook, Olivia Kate Rice, Dominic Bogart Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, Sadie Sink
Director: Destin Cretton
Writer (based upon the book by) Jeannette Walls
Writer: Destin Cretton, Andrew Lanham
Cinematographer: Brett Pawlak
Editor: Nat Sanders
Composer: Joel P. West