Sweeping the board with critical praise from all sides, Mia Hansen-Love’s new film Father of My Children is now showing at Mayfair, Renoir and Richmond. The emotional tale of a family dealing with the loss of one their own, the director shows a real insight into the relationship between parents and their children.

Time Out ★★★★ “an impressive work about families and filmmaking” David Jenkins

Guardian: ★★★★★ -“An outstanding, undemonstrative family drama about depression” Peter Bradshaw

The Times ★★★★

The Telegraph ★★★★ “Father of My Children is cinema’s bravest snapshot of our beleaguered moment.” Tim Robey

The Independent ★★★★★ “halfway through the story …the writer-director Hansen-Løve brings a sudden cold clarity to bear in the manner of an Alice Munro short story – I can think of no higher praise – obliging us to rethink the entire drift of the film” Anthony Quinn

Financial Times: ★★★★★ “I never saw characters weep so convincingly on screen, so uncoercedly and uncoercingly. We never feel marched towards either a mood or a message, but we always and unforgettably ‘feel’.” Nigel Andrews

The Big Issue: ★★★★

Evening Standard: ★★★★ “We are used to the agony of the star, the creative suffering of the director, the experience of the writer, but Father of My Children is a brilliant depiction of something quite new: the despair of the good producer.” Andrew O’Hagan