Family Portrait is a 2023 drama film directed by Lucy Kerr (in her directorial debut), starring Deragh Campbell, Rachel Alig, Miriam Spumpkin, Katie Folger, and Chris Galust. It follows a family that gets together somewhere in Texas to have their photograph taken for a Christmas card.
Cast Rachel Alig as Annabelle Miriam Spumpkin as Sally Deragh Campbell as Katy Katie Folger as Grace Chris Galust as Olek Vanessa Cedotal as Maria
Release Family Portrait premiered in Switzerland in 2023 as part of the Locarno Film Festival.
Critical reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 23 critics' reviews are positive. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on 7 critics, which the site labels as "generally favorable" reviews.
Carlos Aguilar of Variety gave the film a highly positive review, calling it "unnerving" and noting that "Kerr exhibits a deft control over her visually economical, experimental leaps." Brian Tallerico, writing for RogerEbert.com, gave the film 3 stars out of 4, calling it a "unique, confidently made film that very purposefully plays more like a dream than realism." William Repass of Slant Magazine praised the film's "atmosphere of dread."
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