IFC Assures Mia Hansen-Love’s ‘Father of My Children’ isn’t a Widow

Grabbed right before it gets other distributors thinking twice about possibly picking up the film (the pic is being shown at TIFF), Father of My Children played extremely well at Cannes and will undoubtedly get North American audiences teary-eyed. The beautifully rendered family portrait in the midst of a crisis was a surprise favorite of mine at Cannes, and for some reason I didn’t think it would get picked up. But au contraire, Mia Hansen-Love‘s sophomore feature got picked up by IFC Films for an eventual 2010 release (simultaneously in theaters and on VOD.)

From spring to winter, Le père de mes enfants recounts the last weeks in the life of Grégoire Canvel prior to his suicide, and the first months without him for his wife Sylvia and their three daughters, Clémence, June and Valentine.

The pic won the special jury prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.