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ma ma

2015

Julio Medem

Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia, Teo Planell ...

5.5

4,279

Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"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"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter	"Apart from Cruz, it's more like Meh Meh (...) Very little about this extremely disappointing film feels real, and some of it is risible"	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	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"	NEU

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