FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC
DRAMA | JAPANESE | 89 MIN
Romance is a business. Family, friends, followers. All available for hire. A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a twelve year old girl. Shot in Japan, with Japanese actors, in the Japanese language, Oscar-nominated auteur Werner Herzog brings to the screen a unique angle to recurring themes around people chasing impossible dreams.
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Werner Herzog
CAST: Yuichi Ishii, Mahiro Tamimoto
MUSIC: Ernst Reijseger
“a moving exploration of loneliness and humanity”
★★★★
— TIME OUT
“Gleefully defies easy categorisation and makes for an endlessly
strange addition to Herzog’s oeuvre.”
— SIGHT & SOUND
“WERNER HERZOG’S fakery-filled docudrama sparks genuine joy”
★★★★
— THE TELEGRAPH
“A curious little meditation on the commodification of everything up to
and including love… moments of pure Herzogian rhapsody”
— THE WRAP
festivals + awards
2019 Cannes Film Festival
Special Screening
2019 Telluride Film Festival
Official Selection
2019 BFI London Film Festival
Official Selection
2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Official Selection, Perespectives