The Succession is a portrait of a family dynamics focusing on the relationship between father and daughter.
The family home is also a microcosm of 1990s Argentina. In it we see the values of Buenos Aires’s new rich, a country as unstable as the father himself and, finally, certain universal phenomena, such as the difficulty of loving our parents, the greater difficulty of not loving them, and the fact that sometimes, however wounding to our sensibilities, violence and love seem to alternate without excluding each other.
It is not easy to fully identify with the characters of The Succession, and the film is therefore unlikely to stimulate much catharsis. Yet, at the same time it does not invite viewers to distance themselves through cynicism or irony. In their different ways, the characters of The Succession claim our empathy, that rare and nowadays so stifled capacity of human beings to experience the feelings of others.