Family Law ( Derecho de familia ) ( Les Lois de la famille ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Like father like son: exploratory variations on that old saw are the thematic heart of the Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman's 'Family Law." The third installment of his semiautobiographical trilogy of films about fatherhood, which began six years ago with 'Waiting for the Messiah" and continued with 'Lost Embrace" in 2004, this delicate, bittersweet comedy prepares you for an eruption of high drama that never arrives. That withholding of catharsis is deliberate. In a printed interview that accompanies the film's production notes, Mr. Burman comes forth as an outspoken champion of understatement. The signals conveyed by body language and silence, he maintains, are truer than the words that come out of people's mouths. And this likable, if undramatic film - the antithesis of Hollywood movies in which father-son Oedipal conflicts are resolved in embarrassing, teary-eyed clinches - makes a case for reticence.; ...Family Law ( Derecho de familia ) ( Les Lois de la famille )