I Love You, Daddy is 2017’s most overlooked film for good reason
Disgraced funnyman Louis C.
’s troubling comedy I Love You, Daddy had its world premiere under stealth conditions at TIFF 2017.
This satire of parental discomfiture and Hollywood sleaze was filmed in secret last summer without big-studio involvement, shot on 35-mm film in arty B&W.
It was such a late add to the festival’s lineup it didn’t make the program book.
TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey warned viewers in an online post that the film “features the deft, conceptual acrobatics C.
’s fans know best, but also a dive into moral hot water guaranteed to raise the temperature of any film lover.
You can say that again.
The water turned from hot to boiling last month, just before the film’s scheduled release, when C.K.
publicly confirmed long-standing rumours of his predatory habit of masturbating in front of unwilling women.
The sounds you heard immediately after this confession were of C.K.’s career being flushed down the toilet and of I Love You, Daddy, being locked into a vault by distributor The Orchard, which took a $5-million hit.
The film, written and directed by C.K., is about a successful TV writer/producer (C.K.
again) who doesn’t know what to do with his adored and pampered 17-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).
She falls for a creepy 68-year-old filmmaker (John Malkovich), who is clearly the embodiment of everything you’ve ever heard about Roman Polanski and Woody Allen.
