Dominique Reymond, Emma de Caunes, Isabelle Huppert
In the sun-soaked Canary Islands, a disturbing and unhealthy relationship develops between 17-year-old Pierre and his mother Helene after his father dies in an auto accident.
DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005
Stats: 278 reviews
French Existentialism. It does my head in! No really, this film is not as clever or as artistic as it thinks it is. Loosely based on a novel by Georges Bataille and ripped to pieces by Christophe Honoré who totally misses the point or at least doesn't understand the meaning (He ...( read more)
Pierre is the product of a very unconventional marriage. Both his parents lead promiscuous lives and he spends most of his childhood in a Catholic boarding school. Soon after he returns home, now a young man, his father dies and his mother, undeterred by her husband's death, dr...( read more)
provocative and there's not really a great deal of incest in it so don't be put off by that. it's worth a watch. just a shame about the very rushed and shit ending. i found it funny at times actually. call me crazy but a mother telling her son how much of a slut she is just seems...( read more)
This is a movie that needs to be digested post-viewing. Once you get past the incestous overtones you can see the issues the director is trying to comment on such as notions of individual freedom. I still wouldn't necessarily recommend it, but it does have some merit beyond the s...( read more)
"Wrong isn't what we're about to do. Wrong is wanting to survive it."
A warning: The prospect of Isabelle Huppert starring in a film called My Mother should not put you in mind of rocking chairs, chocolate chip cookies made from scratch, and phone calls home. You'd...( read more)
Aren´t Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel tired of playing always the same character/type of role?
Aren´t french directors tired of the cheap well(badly)-known liberal sex French philosophy?
Sickness and disgusting.
Half star for the opening credits on the white background ...( read more)
SPOILER ALERT - I really thought I knew what I was getting with this movie. I knew there was a sexually confused son, back from boarding school who has an odd relationship with his mother. And I knew it was NC-17. And I actually thought most of the movie was pretty B/B- worthy. B...( read more)
It lacks a proper and developing potion so it can be revived as a unique work of art.Honore's magic couldn't possibly advance the logic of this project to an erotic masterpiece (perhaps as a commentary to family ties..),Bataille I bet wasn't too insulted by the result,I 'm feelin...( read more)
A film which, like "Emmanuelle" (1974), features beautiful people in sultry settings, challenging the proscriptions of social mores, "Ma Mère" differs in its narrative sophistication and intellectual arrogance. Isabelle Huppert plays a mother, perhaps past her prime, but still be...( read more)
Good personal performances, but it's basically just a bunch of sex scenes.
Probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche, where sexual annihilation is the only response to a fallen world, where all moral bets are off, and where a boy's w... full review
The translation from the highly literary to the literalness of film isn't easy and too often, Ma Mère feels like a parody. full review
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