The story follows (Sami Frey), a man in his late 40s caught between two families. He lives in Provence with his second wife Mara (Juliet Berto) and her fiery teenage daughter Natacha (played by a young Juliette Binoche in one of her first major roles). However, his weekends are dedicated to his 10-year-old daughter from his first marriage, Elise (Mara Goyet).
La vie de famille was not widely released in the USSR in 1985. However, during the early 1990s, French art films entered Russia on VHS tapes with voice-over translation (often poor). Today, Russian film scholars (e.g., those at the Moscow Film School) cite Doillon’s work alongside Alexander Sokurov’s Mother and Son (1997) as examples of poetic miserabilism in family portraiture. la vie de famille 1985 ok vf ok ru work
Sami Frey, Mara Goyet, Juliet Berto, and Juliette Binoche in one of her early roles. The story follows (Sami Frey), a man in