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Director Ross explores family and parenting in ‘Captain Fantastic’

July 13, 2016 | By Reuters
Director Matt Ross poses during a photocall for the film "Captain Fantastic" in competition for the category "Un Certain Regard" at the 69th Cannes Film Festival

July 13 (Reuters) – Writer and director Matt Ross says his award-winning “Captain Fantastic” film about a father and his children draws on some elements of his own childhood as well as his own hopes as a parent.

In the movie, for which Ross won a directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Viggo Mortensen plays a father of six who takes his family from their isolated forest abode to the city.

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“There’s some autobiographical elements. My mother started some alternative living…communities in northern California and Oregon and I lived on those as a child. My mother is not Viggo’s character. This is just fiction,” Ross told Reuters.

“I think it really was aspirational for me, the kind of father I want to be…There’s a couple of gifts we can give our children. One is to be present in their lives…and the other is to try and I think…every parent does this, we try and teach them so they don’t make the same mistakes we do.”

(Reporting By Reuters Television)

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