A child’s-eye view of a hero father – Javier Cámara stars as dedicated parent, doctor, human-rights leader and all-round good egg Héctor Abad Gómez – is saturated with a honeyed colour palette and an unapologetically sentimental score. But as the child grows into an adult, the film adopts starker black-and-white photography and a harder-edged approach to Colombia’s tumultuous political backdro. Adapted, somewhat inelegantly, from an autobiographical novel by Héctor Abad Faciolince, Memories of My Father is a touch overlong and soapy and awkwardly structured. But it’s still an engrossingly watchable drama.
