An Almost Perfect Family

Tudor Platon / Romania / 2023 / International Premiere / 88 min.

synopsis

After 30 years of marriage, the film director was informed by his parents that they were divorcing. Completely unprepared and taken aback, he has to deal with a giant upheaval of basic certainties. Nevertheless, at such a critical moment, he picks up the camera and bases a very personal documentary account of the complexity of family and romantic relationships on this painful experience. While trying to understand what happened between them in separate dialogues with her mother and father, she falls in love and begins her own life as a partner and parent. One family falls apart and another is born. It is the moment of concurrence of the two border stages – the end and the beginning – that makes it possible to develop lines of thought in the direction of scepticism and learning and learn whether it is possible to build a full-fledged relationship and ensure that it never breaks. When parents and children move in other worlds and times and the “inherited sins” of our ancestors are passed on to us through genetics and upbringing, then love really isn't enough sometimes. Son, partner, father and director in one person observes such considerations with a camera in hand.

“I’m not really intrigued when there’s no discovery while making a documentary, when the filmmaker knows exactly what the film is right from the beginning.”

Quote source: Cineuropa

biography

Tudor Platon (1991) is a Romanian director of documentary films and cinematographer of award-winning feature films that have premiered at festivals in Cannes, Venice and Locarno. His documentary debut House of Dolls (2020) was screened at a number of festivals in Europe.

more about film

director:	Tudor Platon
cast:	Raluca Platon, Vasile Platon, Tudor Platon, Carla Fotea, Ileana Craciun, Iacob Platon
producer:	Tudor Platon, Carla Fotea, Ada Solomon
script:	Tudor Platon
photography:	Tudor Platon
editing:	Delia Oniga, Maria Salomia
sound design:	Ioan Filip, Stefan Rucareanu
Consultant:	Alexandru Solomon