80
It’s a potent psychodrama, pitting Marianne’s reality against the one Fassaert is documenting
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80
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
The film is much more about the way in which people perceive one another than about the way people really are.
80
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
A Family Affair is by turns fascinating and futile, running the risk that by exposing the heartbreak of one family it will repel all those with their own unresolvable family sadness.
50
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
By the jaw-dropping climax (an argument over a family portrait), and the film’s not-entirely unpredictable denouement, you aren’t sure whether you are witnessing an investigative family chronicle or an act of revenge.
90
This deceptively artless, journal-style film has no need for any carefully sculpted twists; rather, it’s the sheer unpredictable perversity of human nature that takes the breath away at key points in Fassaert’s unsettling, perhaps unsolvable, inquiry.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust
Tom gradually chips away at the preening facade to seemingly unmask a complex woman whose self-image was largely shaped by her appearance-obsessed father. However, the deeper he digs, the more elusive his subject becomes.
75
Throughout A Family Affair, time is continually collapsed to the point where events separated by many years bleed into one another.