Review of I Love You, Daddy

This film is spectacularly beautiful, boldly modern, and classically elegant all at the same time. The black and white 35mm film makes this film feel more real than anything in recent times, and draws you in visually to a place that feels fresh and raw, but also comforting and nostalgic. The script dares to go to places seen in modern times as risqué,off-limits, or bluntly put; forbidden- - all the while showing the lighter side of a father and daughter stutter stepping what it means to enter/guide ones child to "adulthood" in the literal sense of the word. A father wrestles with wanting what's best for his daughter's future,while fearing the worst and being afraid to loose her love and a connection he holds so dear. While his daughter wrestles with her own coming of age issues, struggling to strike a balance of finding herself and yet begging silently to be put her place by her well meaning, but totally clueless, yet loving father. Things become even more complicated than the typical senior year/18th birthday milestones- when her fathers idol, and a man 50 years her senior with a habit of courting barley legal young women enters the picture-turning everything on its head. From walking on eggshells, to holding his ground-Louis C.K.s character manages to find himself as a father, while loosing himself professionally. Chloë does an amazing job of being an intitled-new money New York City teen socialite, who has no grasp of what adulthood means or what her future holds, to learning to stand on her own two feet and stop looking to the men in her life to define her. Excellent film all around, a complete and utter shame it hasn't been shared with the world.