Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC is a 2019 German drama film directed by Werner Herzog. It stars Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto. It was shown in the Special screenings section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12-year-old girl.

Cast

 * Yuichi Ishii
 * Mahiro Tanimoto

Production
The film casts non-professional actors speaking Japanese. It was shot in the spring and summer of 2018 in Tokyo and Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The production wrapped in August that year. Herzog shot about 300 to 350 minutes of footage in total. The film features music by Ernst Reijseger.

Release
The film had its premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2019.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, calling it "A strange, faintly frustrating but diverting film." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "This is minor Herzog, to be sure, but alternately amusing and disarming nonetheless." Peter Debruge of Variety commented that "Not quite 90 minutes, the film might actually be more effective at half the length."