The Squid and the Whale
In 1980s Brooklyn, two boys are pulled between their competitive novelist father and their mother as the parents' marriage breaks up and the family divides.
Sundance Directing Award 2005 won
In Brooklyn in the 1980s, the Berkman parents, both writers, separate and arrange to share custody of their two sons. The elder boy idolises his self-absorbed, faltering novelist father and takes his side, while the younger drifts, and the children absorb the parents' rivalries as their own.
The divorce is seen through the children, whose loyalties split along lines of Oedipal identification that expose the wounds left by a narcissistic father. Winner of the Directing Award at Sundance in 2005.
Details
- 2005
- United States
- English
- Film
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