The Son of Joseph

Sullen Parisian teenager Vincent (Victor Ezenfis) had enough of the evasiveness of his single mom (Natacha Régnier) about his absent father’s identity, and decided to do some detective work. The pursuit--which took him to the offices of his self-involved publisher dad (Mathieu Almaric), and into a fateful friendship with an affable farmer (Fabrizio Rongione)--propels filmmaker Eugène Green’s charming parable. Maria de Medeiros, Julia de Gasquet also star. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack; French; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.