Synopsis
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
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My Mother
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Gabriele Kranzelbinder Paulo Branco Dimitri de Clercq Bernard-Henri Lévy Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Stéphane Sorlat
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Alternative Titles
Mi madre, I mitera mou, Anyámat!, Min mor, Moja matka, Minha Mãe, Моя мать, Ma mère (Mi madre), Relaciones Prohibidas, 내 어머니, Annem, Meine Mutter, אמא שלי, Η Μητέρα Μου, 母亲，爱情的限度, დედაჩემი, ジョルジュ・バタイユ ママン, Mama mea
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Theatrical limited
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USANC-17
Theatrical
19 May 2004
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Belgium
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France
22 Jun 2004
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Russia
25 Jun 2004
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Italy
TV
11 Jul 2007
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Germany18
Releases by Country
Belgium
19 May 2004
- Theatrical
France
19 May 2004
- Theatrical
Germany
11 Jul 2007
- TV18
Italy
25 Jun 2004
- Theatrical
Russia
22 Jun 2004
- Theatrical
USA
19 Oct 2004
- Theatrical limitedNC-17
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you know when you know a films gonna be shitty but louis garrel is in it so you have to watch it anyway? yeah, that.
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Definitely a film to watch with your mother. Preferably mother's day, what better way to celebrate than with a film aptly titled Ma Mere. Cute.
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Of course it was Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel of all people to play the incestuous mother and son here, and they absolutely killed it. It's a tall order to adapt a story that heavily relies on shock values. Still, the result is a largely satisfactory, hilarious, and stylish experience that I don't hate at all.
Interestingly, Garrel did almost all of the heavy lifting when it comes to nudity and sex, and queer director Christophe Honoré missed no beat to capture the glorious beauty of a super young, super twinky Garrel. A naturalistic overtone sees a promiscuous widow wallowing in sexual liberation and abandonment, and grooming her son into the same world. It's filled with racy, uncomfortable moments, where sexual fetish and Oedipus complex are dealt with. Although it's difficult to form any sort of connection with the characters for obvious reasons, I still have tons of fun and see this as an effective hidden comedy. Recommended.
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took me three days to actually finish this, very perverse, very uncomfortable. the blank, erotic radiance of a remorseless, lonely hedonist, a mother that as soon as she feels free throws off all her boundaries, she mutates into the devil on the shoulder of her son, she feeds like a vampire on his energy, drags him on the path of sexual awakening without any moral concepts whatsoever... he's a victim of the person that was supposed to protect him; these transgressive stories always have a time and place and that's why i love cinema. still feels like a weak examination of Freudian concepts, feels designed purely to shock, and it succeeds. BUUUT Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel 😍, that's it.
crossing a certain limit pushes us towards the sacred? is God in all our pathetic desires?
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It probably didn't help that prior to watching Ma mère I had only recently revisited Michael Haneke's absolutely brilliant The Piano Teacher, another film starring Isabelle Huppert as a masochistic figure. But for as much as I am willing to defend Isabelle Huppert in anything, there's absolutely nothing about Ma mère that can even make this experience anything close to worthwhile. Rather instead, there was a part of my experience with The Piano Teacher coming back to me, and not in a good way, because the way in which it unfolded did make me feel sick to my stomach without any real thought put behind what came around. As I try to find even anything that's really worth defending about…
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Oedipus complex shenanigans soaked in a kind of aggressive cynicism that only the French could pull off this confidently…and that is a compliment. This is such a bold mess of a film, yet, for all the incestuous vulgarity we’re forced to endure - which at first feels placed for shock value, everything finally comes full circle in its final moments where the whole charade is revealed as less of a morally-corrupt provocation and more of an ‘apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’ kind of deal.
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My Mother. 2004. Directed by Christophe Honoré.
Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel in their craziest role together. Wow! I survived depictions of coprophagy, incest, rape, insanity, and the most graphic film since Caligula.
However severe this film may be, it has its merits. This is a coming of age film in which Louis Garrel must confront his father’s death, his mother’s sexual habits, and her deviant friends.
His commitment and acting made the film tolerable. My Mother is worth watching for the record just to keep one’s life in perspective. It is shot with a handheld camera and the pixelation is a bit annoying but Honoré used creative angles. Anything goes in Ma Mere. I recommend this film to fierce fans of Huppert and Garrrel.
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