Family Law
(Derecho de Ley)
In Spanish with English subtitles • In this fresh comic drama about finding one's place in life, sexy, confused law professor Ariel Perelman is in a muddle. He has wooed and won a beautiful student whom he now does not know how to love–nor, later, their child. Ariel's attorney father, whom Ariel drolly describes as “a Zelig among lawyers,” a hero to his clients and adored by everyone he meets, wants Ariel to take over his practice and place in the community, which Ariel feels incapable of doing. As Ariel tries to decide what to do with his life, life beats him to the punch. This is director Daniel Burman and actor Daniel Hendler's fourth collaboration, all of which focus on the inner crises of neurotic but appealing young, middle-class, urban Jewish-Argentine men. And while Burman's films do all concern themselves with loss and love, his comic inflection tempers the existential with the humane. — C. Rountree
Presented in association with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Director: Daniel Burman
Producer: Diego Dubcovsky, Jose Maria Morales
Screenwriter: Daniel Burman
Cinematographer: Ramiro Civita
Editor: Alejandro Parysow
Cast: Daniel Hendler, Julieta Diaz, Arturo Goetz, Adriana Aizemberg, Eloy Burman
Print Source: IFC Films
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NY, NY, 10001
Tel: 800.993.4567 x1
Sponsor:
Strawberry Village
