Family Pack (Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la lune?)
Chris Vander Stappen, director.
Belgium/Canada, 2000, 35mm, 102 min.
French with English subtitles.

Family Pack, the directorial debut of Chris Vander Stappen (award-winning screenwriter of Ma Vie en Rose and director of last year's Mother's Day) is an amusing and heartwarming tale of secrets, family dynamics, and sexual identity.

It is 1969, and Man will soon walk on the Moon. Sacha has been living in Montreal for the past two years, working as a photographer and hiding her girlfriend, Odile, from her family in Belgium. Sacha's mother hopes for a man for Sacha and grandchildren for herself.

Odile, meanwhile, has had it with the secrets and lies and threatens to leave if Sacha doesn't tell her family before Neil Armstrong's giant leap. Reluctantly, Sacha goes back to Belgium and tries to tell her dysfunctional family the truth. All hell breaks loose when she does and soon the whole is suddenly letting all the skeletons out of the closet.

A charming tale of tolerance, coming out and family dynamics, Family Pack goes beyond the adage "You cant go home again," to remind us that, though our families don't seem to understand us at all, we might just be the ones that don't quite understand them.

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