ma ma

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Original title: ma ma
Year: 2015
Running time: 111 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Julio Medem
Screenwriter: Julio Medem
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Cinematography: Kiko de la Rica
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia, Teo Planell, Silvia Abascal, Mónica Sagrera, Àlex Brendemühl, Ciro Miró
Producer: Co-production Spain-France; Morena Films / Ma Ma Peliculas AIE / Mare Nostrum production
Genre: Drama | Disease. Family Relationships. Melodrama
Synopsis / Plot: Nervously waiting a few months after finding a lump in one breast, Magda (Penelope Cruz) finally drags herself to see her gynecologist, Julian (Asier Etxeandia), who soon delivers the bad news: She will need a mastectomy, preceded by debilitating chemo treatments. She ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani (Teo Planell) excels as usual, attracting the attention of talent scout Arturo (Luis Tosar), who’s looking for talented young players to enroll in the junior leagues that could lead to a pro career.

Awards: 2015: Goya Awards: 3 Nom., including Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)

2015: Feroz Awards: 2 Nominations: Best Actress (Penélope Cruz) and Music

2016: Platino Awards: Nominated for Best Original Music & Actres (Penélope Cruz)

Critics' reviews

"Cruz is the wellspring of all womanly virtues in this shameless tearjerker (...) a whopping load of maudlin contrivance, all designed to burnish the halo around St. Penelope"

Dennis Harvey: Variety
"Apart from Cruz, it's more like Meh Meh (...) Very little about this extremely disappointing film feels real, and some of it is risible"

Jonathan Holland: The Hollywood Reporter
Cruz looks radiant (...) but the schmaltzy script and uneven tone of the film conspire to upstage her performance and diminish our capacity to feel moved by it"

Allan Hunter: Screendaily

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