Synopsis
The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...
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Cast
- Guillaume CanetJulien Perrin
- Mélanie LaurentMarie Blanchard
- Olivier de BenoistGrégoire Rochas
- Antoine HamelThe Pick-Up
- Marc RobertHead of the Kidnappers
- Mohamed BrikatLieutenant Verrier
- Lino PapaMathys
- Tristan PagèsRavisseur 2
- Pierre LangloisRavisseur 3
- Christophe RossignonDirecteur Centre de loisirs
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
[An] engrossing, propulsive film. - 75
RogerEbert.com
My Son finds its cinematic footing in a committed, steady, realism, and that creates a high-wire act of tension and suspense that’s refreshingly clean and consistently effective. - 63
TheWrap
In its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s got a nervously eerie feel to it that’s grounded in Canet’s gripping turn as a dad out to do good for his estranged family. - 60
Film Threat
Carion, along with his co-screenwriter Laure Irrman, leave things annoyingly unexplained – which would be fine in a poetic meditation on loss and grief that purposefully raises more questions than answers, but is indefensible in a neither-here-nor-there pseudo-intellectual thriller. - 50
Variety
Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect. - 38
Slant Magazine
The film seeks to elevate genre clichés by slowing down the speed with which they’re typically offered. - 30
The New York Times
An endorsement of milquetoast vigilantism that’s not nearly as knotty as it presumes to be, the French thriller “My Son” is so reserved in its storytelling and vague in its details that all it elicits is a yawn.
