Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Directed by Werner Herzog
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
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From Werner Herzog’s Family Romance, LLC (2019) to endless YouTube documentaries, the “rental family” industry—where clients hire actors to play fathers, spouses, or friends—has become modern shorthand for urban alienation.
Werner Herzog made an entire movie about it, Family Romance LLC, one of his rare narrative features.
The phenomenon has been made into a film before, but few have probably seen Werner Herzog's 2019 "Family Romance, LLC," which centers on a storyline also central to cowriter (with Stephen Blahut)/director Hikari's ("37 Seconds," TV's 'Beef') film…