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Go Get Some Rosemary

Francaise title: Allez chercher du romarin
Spain title: Un amigo llamado Papá
Greek title: Φέρτε και λίγο δεντρολίβανο
Russian title: Сходи на розмарином
Original title: Go Get Some Rosemary

Alternative titles:
Daddy Longlegs / Lenny and the Kids / Ferte kai ligo dentrolivano / Φερτε και ληγο δεντροληβανο

Family drama – USA
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 100 minutes

Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Writer: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
Cinematograph: Brett Jutkiewicz, Josh Safdie
Music: David Sandholm & The Beets

Movie description:

After months of being alone, sad, busy, sidetracked, free, lofty, late and away from his kids, Lenny, 34 with graying frazzled hair, picks his kids up from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny juggles his kids and everything else all within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. He ultimately faces the choice of being their father or their friend all with the idea that these two weeks must last 6 months. In these two weeks, a trip upstate, visitors from strange lands, a mother, a girlfriend, »magic« blankets, and complete lawlessness seem to take over their lives. The film is a swan song to excuses and responsibilities; to fatherhood and self-created experiences, and to what it’s like to be truly torn between being a child and being an adult.

Divorced and alone, Lenny is the father of two young boys he gets to see a couple of weeks a year. He cherishes these days with the kids, being both stern parent and lovable buddy, inventing myths and somehow living them, all while working overtime in the big city. When the going gets tough, Lenny uses some unusual, perhaps even hazardous, techniques to keep the kids safe from the world. Because of the film s fluid style, we feel that we are in the boxing ring alongside Lenny, as flawed as he is charismatic, champion of each day, yet totally black and blue. As the storm of society continually rains on him, Lenny laughs through it all. Isn’t life crazy?
Josh and Benny Safdie have crafted a realistic fairy tale that captures the magic and perils of parenthood, invoking memories of their inventive dad from their own childhood.

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