A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his gravely ill father. Upon entering the dark confines of a house he has not visited in six years, Wit once again finds himself exposed to the idiosyncratic pathologies of his father, sister, and aunt.
A 1971 Cannes contender from a Polish master, Krzysztof Zanussi’s taut chamber drama simmers with generational discontent. Airing out the moral rots that underpin a handsome ancestral home, Family Life reckons with the shackles of familial dysfunction—and a country in sociopolitical disarray.
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