Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole showed that an art film with a sitcom heart could not only be tolerable, but also illuminate the ways we're often drawn to the clever and cutesy when we want to understand relationships. But what works on TV doesn't always work at feature-length, as proved both by Klapisch's sequel Russian Dolls, and now Daniel Burman's Family Law. Burman's film stars Daniel Hendler as a fumbly law professor simultaneously dealing with the legacy of his father Arturo Goetz—a legend in the Argentinean legal community—and the arrival of his own son. As Hendler discovers that he doesn't know as much about his dad as he thought he did, he spends more and more time at his son's "Swiss" kindergarten, where the teachers expect him to be the kind of involved, playful pop that his father never was.
