Father and Sons

Léo is a retired sales representative on bad terms with his three sons. To get them together again he invents a lie: he says he is ill and about to have an operation. On that basis the sons agree to travel to Canada with their father. Old scores come open along the way, and on the road they meet a woman and her daughter. Philippe Noiret plays Léo in Michel Boujenah's French film, with Charles Berling, Bruno Putzulu and Pascal Elbé as the sons. The telling does not make the lie look charming, but it does not condemn the father easily either. It follows the pattern of a road movie across the Canadian landscape. The tone is light; even the quarrels end somewhere soft.