Ma Mere NC-17
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DVD Details
- Rated: NC-17
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Tla
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Isabelle Huppert & Louis Garrel | |
Performer: | Francois Montagut & Dominique Reymond | |
Directed by | Christophe Honoré | |
Screenwriting by | Christophe Honoré |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
The translation from the highly literary to the literalness of film isn't easy and too often, Ma Mère feels like a parody.
Globe and Mail
Rating: 1/4 --
110 minutes of Euro silliness mitigated only by the presence of Huppert and the striking ability of the actors to keep a straight face throughout this mess.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Ma mère could easily be mistaken for the latest anhedonic embarrassment out of Canada
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 2/4 --
Glazed-over looks, naked flesh, inane philosophizing, and sand dunes announce that we're in Antonioni-land, circa Zabriskie Point.
Groucho Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
The cast deliver brave, accomplished performances, with Huppert's Héléne a compelling mixture of menace and fragility.
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The List
Rating: 1/4 --
It could stand as Exhibit A for why French auteurs are a tough sell to the average seeker of entertainment.
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Toronto Star
Rating: C- --
Eurotrash at its trashiest worst.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Adapted from the provocative novel by transgressive postmodern intellectual and author Georges Bataille, MA MERE is set in the visually lush and spiritually empty tourist trap of the Canary Islands. Louis Garrel, projecting the same European sultriness that was perfectly suited to Bertolucci's more warmly erotic film THE DREAMERS, plays Pierre, a sulking and antisocial teenager, willfully indifferent to being on summer vacation with his parents. When his wayward father suddenly dies, his mother Helene (Isabelle Huppert), forces him into her universe of illicit sex--a simultaneously ugly and playful realm inhabited by Gallic sophisticates engaging in orgies and bondage. Pierre, a devout Catholic, is resistant at first--to the point of Catholic guilt-induced attacks of sobbing and hyperventilation. But after fulfilling experiences with Helene's male and female playmates, Pierre obsessively pursues the sexual attention of his own mother, and a disturbing quest toward consummation of the attraction between mere and fils is undertaken.
Star Isabelle Huppert's role as Helene is a perfect follow-up to her award-winning turn in the equally shocking LA PIANISTE, which featured the French fatale engaging in illicit acts with both a young male student and her own controlling, elderly mother. With her just barely constrained and visibly volatile sexual energy, the actress has become known as the "go-to girl" for roles that transcend sexual and social taboos and explore the dark and violent side of erotic desire. Her overpowering presence in MA MERE, as all great performances do, make the viewer wonder just how blurry the boundaries between actress and role have become.
Star Isabelle Huppert's role as Helene is a perfect follow-up to her award-winning turn in the equally shocking LA PIANISTE, which featured the French fatale engaging in illicit acts with both a young male student and her own controlling, elderly mother. With her just barely constrained and visibly volatile sexual energy, the actress has become known as the "go-to girl" for roles that transcend sexual and social taboos and explore the dark and violent side of erotic desire. Her overpowering presence in MA MERE, as all great performances do, make the viewer wonder just how blurry the boundaries between actress and role have become.
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