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Ma Mère

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Synopsis

Co-star Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) appears naked frequently in this excellent new French film. The incomparable Isabelle Huppert once again provokes and enthralls us with another vivid character study of a modern woman testing the boundaries of life's pleasures and pain.

Review

To say that French icon Isabelle Huppert likes to challenge herself — and the audience — is somewhat of an understatement. The great actress/provocateur has come to specialize in tormented, troubled and wildly transgressive women and, just when you think she has gone as far as she can, she takes us even closer to the edge. Arguably more amazing is the number of filmmakers comfortable within Huppert's dangerous, sensual universe: would any modern director pass up the chance to work with her? Christophe Honoré is the latest, and with Ma mère, his adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel, Huppert adds yet another striking characterization to her singular gallery of screen women.

The movie is virtually an autopsy of the sexual duality of women as both lovers and mothers. Here, however, the two are daringly intertwined as Huppert embarks on a summer of depravity on the sun-kissed Canary Islands with her teenaged son, played by Louis Garrel, who previously starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers — and who is clearly Huppert's counterpart in adventurous performances. Coming-of-age movies are a familiar film staple but there hasn't been one quite like Ma mère, which borrows elements from Louis Malle’s now relatively tame Murmur of the Heart and Huppert's controversial film for Michael Haneke, The Piano Teacher. At once sexually charged, romantic and frightening, Ma mère is another brave journey into dark, uncharted areas of the human soul, guided by one of the screen's great actresses. Better buckle up: as Bette Davis would say, it's going to be one bumpy ride, and memorably so. (French with English subtitles)

-- Joe Baltake

Product Format Information

DVD : $13.49 (Uncut)

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Region Code: 1
UPC: 807839002157

Studio : TLA Releasing

Languages: French Dolby Digital 2.0 (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.85, Widescreen
Features:
Chapter selection
Digitally mastered
Alternate ending(s)
Interview(s): Emma de Caunes
Interview(s): Christophe Honoré

Keywords

Celebrity Skin & Nudity, Family Life, Incest, International

Genres

International, TLA Releasing

Customer Reviews

Nice Film

Dirty Old Man wrote on 12/06/2007:

This film is almost all it is cracked up to be. Lots of nudity from Emma de Cannes and Joana Preiss. Isabell Huppert, who does not get naked in this film is why I only gave it 4 stars instead of 5. Very erotic and a lot of sexual tension keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what will happen next.If you are into French cinema, would highly recommend this filmj.

0 (No Stars) Grotesque

Taurus (levraphael@comcast.net) wrote on 02/09/2006:

The preview of this movie made it seem moody, fascinating, erotic. Instead, it's psychologically incoherent and boring, when it's not gross. The scenes don't add up, nor does the way characters push past their own and others' sexual limits because nobody here is a full-fledged individual whose behavior makes sense. It's a bit like watching a dog lick its balls or butt. Save your time and money and if you want something truly sexy, mysterious, and French, go for The Swimming Pool.

0 (No Stars) Great anticipation, but no delivery!

brunoderoma wrote on 01/20/2006:

A movie should deliver visual images instead of taking you there and leave your imagination do the rest. So if you expect to see something you shall be disappointed. It's like this French (!) movie was made for american TV and politically correct in not displaying body parts. Sure, we understand that the mother is promiscuous but why bother to show it, n'est pas? Showing an orgy? No way. Forget to see the encounter mother/son unless you are happy to see a black screen, you depraved! And you are left to wonder why the mother would commit suicide after all taboos were already broken anyhow. A movie generous for close ups of the son face coming to the screen so close that you can read the brand of lipstick he is using. A black eye for french cinema and a long, long way below "Y Tu Mama Tambien".