“Family Therapy” by Sonja Prosenc: class table

The nominal system of auteur politics has the advantage of allowing us to take our references for realities: the names of other filmmakers make intelligible arguments in defense or demolition of a film to be criticized. For example, Pier Paolo Pasolini made Theorem and is considered an auteur. While Philippe de Chauveron, who made With Open Arms and What Did We Do to God? Yet their themes are similar, and not far from Family Therapy. The same mystique of the bourgeois family assailed by its demons, difference, social neurosis, transgression.

The figure of the unknown, exciting because it is external, and the figure of the stranger, terrifying because it is exogamous, merge into a single fantasy of an exterminating angel and a prodigal son (here embodied by Aliocha Schneider ). Family Therapy therefore absolutely claims to be