The theatrical release of "Family Romance LLC" was canceled after the pandemic, and it's premiering on Mubi this weekend. Fans of Herzog—and that really It turns out that Ishii owns a company called Family Romance LLC, from which people can "hire" family members. Are you in a situation where.
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With Family Romance, LLC Herzog for the first time blends both his approaches into a single film, with intriguing if uneven results. The company of the title, based in Tokyo, loans out actors to people who need to fill specific emotional holes in their lives. German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who travelled to Japan on a family holiday, came upon one Yuichi Ishii's rent a relative company Family Romance LLC and that is how the movie took shape. (In real life, Family Romance LLC would surely not attempt such an obviously illegal and easily detectable dodge.) But that fake ex-husband role is the centre of the movie. In a more conventional fictional drama, his imposture would from the outset be shown as sinister, predatory, morally bankrupt. "Family Romance, LLC" has the bittersweet quality of a Disney story but the production qualities of a Lifetime movie, resulting in an experimental tone that never quite settles in one place. Herzog's not the subtlest of filmmakers, and the movie's dialogue rarely digs too deep into the crisis of conscience that. It stars Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto.
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Werner Herzog travels to Tokyo, where a unique entrepreneur has discovered how to make clients' wishes come The "LLC" in the film's title is a clue that the movie wasn't conceived purely in a spirit of empathy, although Herzog's humor is good-natured enough. Family Romance, LLC doesn't have the best acting or editing techniques, but there's something so pure about the fact that Herzog just continuously pushes through. It's a film that carries a charm from how you noticed that artificiality, but the sentimental nature which he takes upon in here still brings.
Mark Kermode reviews Family Romance, LLC. A man is hired to act as the absent father of a young girl. Please tell us what you think of the film -- or Mark's. 'Family Romance, LLC': Film Review Having slipped dexterously between fiction and documentary formats through his entire career, now in its second half-century, Werner Herzog evinces little interest in the boundaries between the two in Family Romance, LLC.