That lack of control extends to how we cannot choose our family, which is Martin's central problem, even though he does love his father after a fashion. "You Will Be My Son" is a compelling and downbeat familial tragedy whose story structure resembles nothing so much as a line of dominoes set into motion.
So, it's a good thing Paul knows how to get in touch with Francois' son Philippe(Nicolas Bridet) in California.
To be honest, Paul now has bigger things to contend with when his longtime estate manager Francois(Patrick Chesnais) is diagnosed with cancer and has six months left to live. But to everybody's disappointment, no kids yet. That also holds true off the job except when Martin and his wife Alice(Anne Marivin) put their bed's springs to the test. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality.Even with all the hard work Martin(Lorant Deutsch) puts in around the family vineyard, his domineering father Paul(Niels Arestrup) hardly takes notice of him, especially when he is talking to reporters. He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue.Īlthough he had no direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. The middle-class Left hate him for this quite as much as for his cruelty and vulgarity. Certain parts of it have a very modern ring to them:īut because (Kipling) identifies himself with the official class, he does possess one thing which ‘enlightened’ people seldom or never possess, and that is a sense of responsibility.
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