Filmmaker Faustine Cros’s father immortalized in family films the most beautiful moments of his life, while her mother’s difficulties struck the blind spot of his images. Today, Faustine revisits these films to tell another story: the one of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom.
"A searching and honest recalibration of one family's narrative, as the director reinterprets her father's obsessive home movies from her mother's perspective of domestic unfulfillment." —Carmen Gray, The Film Verdict
"[Cros's] documentary is a sensitive and sympathetic portrait of the outstanding personality of her mother. But it is also a unique and unprecedented portrayal of the destructive impact of the daily routine of motherly care." —Melita Zajc, Modern Times Review
"A Life Like Any Other is a delicate and sensitive personal film in which Cros produces an in-depth portrait of an era, without making any judgement of her father, or men in general. The combination of archive footage, interviews and observation is exquisitely edited by Cédric Zoenen and Cros (who is herself an experienced editor) to balance the love that clearly exists in the family with the most telling, painful moments." —Vladan Petkovic, Cineuropa
