Ma Mère
Disturbing...compelling...'Ma Mère' is a fierce confrontation of the most difficult of taboos...this is powerful, uncompromising cinema.
-- BBC
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Ma Mère
Ma Mère takes place in the Canary Islands, where the film’s family shares a home. The mother Hélène (Isabelle Huppert), cool and in charge, and her teenaged son Pierre (Louis Garrel), a pious Catholic back from boarding school, discuss his father’s infidelity; the next they learn that he has died in a car crash. Hélène launches into a wild series of parties, gradually involving her son in her drugging, drinking and sex-fueled nights out.
When she mysteriously goes away, her son is left in the care of her mistress Réa (Joana Preiss) and Hansi (Emma de Caunes), an icy blonde sadist with whom he falls in love. As the film evolves, we realize that this is a period of initiation for the young man until his mother can return and fully bring him to sexual maturity and adulthood.
When she mysteriously goes away, her son is left in the care of her mistress Réa (Joana Preiss) and Hansi (Emma de Caunes), an icy blonde sadist with whom he falls in love. As the film evolves, we realize that this is a period of initiation for the young man until his mother can return and fully bring him to sexual maturity and adulthood.
Runtime
110
Language
French
Director
Christophe Honoré
Writer(s)
Christophe Honoré
Cast
Hélène: Isabelle Huppert,
Pierre: Louis Garrel,
Hansi: Emma de Caunes,
Rea: Joana Preiss,
Loulou: Jean-Baptiste Montagut,
Marthe: Dominique Reymond,
Robert: Olivier Rabourdin,
The Father: Philippe Duclos
Opening at
Town Center 5 on Feb 12th
Monica Film Center on Feb 12th
Claremont 5 on Feb 12th
Newhall on Feb 12th
Glendale on Feb 12th
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