Son frère 2003

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Hushed, clinical, grimly paced, and moving. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: It's as honest as it is agonizing. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Just the quiet drama of two brothers, briefly reunited in their old Nantes neighborhood. Just the small essential struggle of one man, trying to make sense of a life before it's gone. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Insightful and often painful to watch, Patrice Chereau's sensitive drama captures the reality of chronic illness. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Patrice Chereau's film is not always pleasant to sit through, but it has the raw, unsettling power, and the surprising tenderness, of a Lucian Freud painting brought to life. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: An observant little film that plays like a poignant etude. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The movie brings disease back to metaphoric ground zero and, in the process, links the sick and the healthy in one significant but often overlooked manner: We're all prisoners of our own bodies. Read more

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Eddie Cockrell, Variety: Both [Todeschini] and Caravaca do a great deal with very little histrionics to make auds care for two brothers who are clearly re-learning to appreciate their family ties, but who only rarely confront each other about their respective emotional journeys. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: An unsentimental, almost uninflected, account of a preparation for death, told with a painful clarity that eventually bleeds into compassion. Read more