*** Father's Birth NEW PAL Documentary DVD Delphine Lanson France ***
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Brand new, official studio-released DVD of this great film, imported from France ( Naître père ) This is a PAL, Region 0 DVD. This DVD will play on standard DVD players in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia (except Japan, Korea, Philippines and Taiwan), Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand.
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FILM DETAILS
Original Title: Naître père
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ) English ( Subtitles ) French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ) French ( Subtitles )
January 2011. Jérôme and François, are living together in Paris. They are waiting for July when Colleen, an American woman who lives on a farm in Wisconsin with her husband and three children, a surrogate mother, will give birth to twins. Gay partners for the past 13 years, Jérôme and François have wanted to be fathers since their relationship began. They first considered individual adoption, then joint parenthood. Both being extremely difficult to arrange, they had nearly given up on building a family when two years ago they saw a documentary on surrogate mothers.
Delphine Lanson's film provides a clear-eyed and moving look at how modern families are formed. Parisians Jérôme and François have been together for thirteen years and want to have children via surrogacy (a process barred in France). They reach out to Colleen, a wife and mother of three residing in Waukesha, WI, who agrees to be the couple's surrogate and soon becomes pregnant with twins. Thus begins a year-long journey that not only brings two new lives into the world, but brings together two familial units across geographic, linguistic, and cultural barriers. Lanson eschews manufactured melodrama or easy lost-in-translation laughs, filling her film with small moments of quiet humor and pathos: Jérôme and François making their first parental purchasing decisions in a massive big-box store; Colleen matter-of-factly explaining her surrogacy role in terms of her own initial difficulties having children. Lanson's observational camera acknowledges the complicated emotional cross-currents of Jérôme, François, and Colleen's arrangement while ultimately celebrating its richness and camaraderie. As the legal rights of same-sex couples remain evermore politicized and divisive, Father's Birth offers a touching snapshot of two families at once distinct and not so different, after all.
Signed a civil partnership contract for thirteen years, Jérôme and François spoke about their desire of child since the beginning of their relation. After an assault course which led them of the adoption to the co-parenthood, they had almost abandoned all hope of starting a family when they saw, two years ago, a documentary on the surrogate mothers. This day, they took back hope and decided to restart the conquest of their paternity.
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