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My Mother

Ma mère

2004

Christophe Honoré

Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss ...

4.5

1,031

Drama Seventeen-year-old Pierre vows blind love to his mother, who isn't ready to handle what her son projects onto her. Refusing to be loved for something she isn't, she decides to break all mystery and reveal her true nature, that of a woman for whom immorality has become an addiction. Pierre is going to ask her to initiate him into debauchery and to go all the way in this more and more dangerous game...

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Ma Mère' may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration."	NEU
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"Masturbation, so often mechanically pumped on screen in the form of a punchline, takes on a devastating thematic function in 'Ma Mère' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The result is an airless Oedipal drama, with a persistent and inescapable note of absurdity."	NEG
United Kingdom	Patrick Peters Empire	"For all the enigmatic intensity of Huppert's performance (...) Christophe Honore succumbs to shocking with style sans substance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader	"[It] is so clinically detached it borders on absurd (...) The story achieves coherence with a climax that takes this woman's maternal devotion to its logical extreme"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The film feels neither real nor dreamy. More puzzling than shocking, it’s a bit of a drag."	NEG

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