The Son Of

One week after a presidential election, France urgently needs a new Prime Minister. A hapless but ambitious young parliamentary assistant has a plan: convince his retired politician father to return from exile and seize the top job. What follows is a breakneck political comedy that opens with a clandestine ortolan feast and accelerates into a razor-sharp portrait of power, ambition, and the flexibility of principle.

“An acid and breathless comedy.” ~Michel Oriot, Ouest France

“For his first feature film, Carlos Abascal Peiró directs with panache a political and family comedy whose acerbic tone gradually becomes more human.” ~Corinne Renou-Nativel, La Croix

“Incisive dialogue, meticulous humour, incredible situations, unvarnished characters: everything goes very fast (a little too fast sometimes) in this frantic comedy by former Spanish journalist Carlos Abascal Peiró.” ~The Update