Family Romance, LLC

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Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto in Family Romance, LLC (2019)

A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12 year old girl.

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A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

3.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The scene filmed at the station where Ishii Yuichi is reprimanded was filmed in one shot and the team dispersed after filming because they were filming without permission and the Security Team was coming to arrest them.

Alternate versions
The MUBI streaming (internet) version adds an 5' introduction by Herzog, and a 16' post interview with him by MUBI's Daniel Kasman.

Connections
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 758: Cloud Atlas (2020)

Soundtracks
Amerigo
Written by Magic Malik (as Malik Mezzadri)
Performed by Ernst Reijseger and Harmen Fraanje

The existential solitude of modern man

The Wind Phone is a phone booth in Japan which people use to hold conversations with their loved ones lost in the tsunami of 2011. Here Herzog puts a woman on a cliff facing the ocean and gives her a receiver. "Did you speak with someone dead?, they ask her after she hangs up. "No. I tried instead to reach someone alive", she answers and you immediately recognize your communication with the living is as one-way as this. The existential solitude of modern man is on focus in this fine drama telling the invented story of a very real company called Family Romance which rents out actors to fill the gaps in our interpersonal relations.