Review of The Son

The Son (2002)
8/10
Father and Son
13 November 2003
This is about forgiveness and about struggle. It's about a carpenter, who takes a new apprentice. They have a story in common. A story that can't be forgiven, but must be.

This is subtle and has lot of symbolism that you don't find out about, until hours after you've left the cinema. The carpenter and the apprentice get equal and not just in a symbolic way. The scene is Belgium, an industrial grey Belgium with much life in it. If you wake that life up.

Well worth seeing. Especially for Olivier Gourmet, a really great European actor.
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