VIFF 2018: Patrimony

Czech Republic

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      An engaging cast and funky, off-road Czech locations can’t quite make up for the cloying, borderline-pointless comedy of Patrimony, concerning the search for a previously unknown sibling discovered by a young Prague woman and her newly widowed mother.

      The notions that Mom was a well-liked theatrical costume designer and that Dad was a famous musician are barely exploited by the story, which also makes the daughter’s own marital woes boringly random. They meet various colourful characters along the way, and everything is played for easy laughs while the giddily inspirational music and TV-commercial crane shots of their shiny red car speeding through sunset-dappled countryside mainly give you time to think about who will star in the Hollywood remake. 

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