2021

Jan Haluza

Modern Father’s Diary

Film

Modern Father’s Diary (Deníček moderního fotra) is a comedy about what happens when life throws you into a situation you never saw coming and you have to deal with it like a man. Nataša and Dominik become parents unexpectedly. Nataša, a successful toy designer, is better placed to support the family, so they agree that Dominik will stay at home with their newborn son. He takes on the job with the naive idea that it will finally give him time to write the book he has been planning for years. He could not be more wrong. It takes all Dominik’s ingenuity just to get little Čeněk through his first year, and at times it feels like a fight for survival. But living with the little one also shows him how many forms love can take.

A man in glasses leans on the rail of a cot in the coloured glow of a night light and looks down at the babyA man and a woman sit facing each other at a bar counter in a club, a beer and a glass of wine between themAn older couple sit side by side on a living room sofa, staring ahead in disapprovalClose-up of a smiling man in glasses and a floral shirt holding a bent spoon up in front of his faceAn overhead view of a cluttered flat where a man lifts a baby above his head between a cot and toys scattered on the floor