Know you’re in for a wild emotional ride when the word “mother” is in the title of a movie. Darren Aronofsky wrought biblical hell upon us with “mother!,” Bong Joon Ho showed us that you could be perhaps too good a mom in “Mother,” and Pedro Almodóvar painted a ravishing ode to screen goddesses with “All About My Mother.” Enter Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Madre” into the canon of warped movies about motherhood. What could’ve been an exploitative affair between a mother and the doppelgänger of her lost child is instead a certainly unsettling but strangely touching new movie.
Set against the clammy coastal enclave of a French beach town, “Madre” revolves around Elena (Nieto) as the mother of a missing child. Ten years prior to the central events of the movie — and presaged by a harrowing single-take sequence that contains one of the most excruciating phone calls in...
Set against the clammy coastal enclave of a French beach town, “Madre” revolves around Elena (Nieto) as the mother of a missing child. Ten years prior to the central events of the movie — and presaged by a harrowing single-take sequence that contains one of the most excruciating phone calls in...
- 10/30/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
"I saw you following me." "Were you with him?" Strand Releasing has debuted an official US trailer for the Spanish dramatic thriller Madre, from acclaimed filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen. This first premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, where it won the Venice Horizons Award for Best Actress. It also stopped by the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, Seville European Film Festival, and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival last year. Ten years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a French teenager who reminds her of her missing son. Marta Nieto stars as Elena, with an indie cast including Jules Porier, Alex Brendemühl, Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, and Guillaume Arnault. This looks very mysterious and suspenseful, with powerful atmospheric cinematography that makes it even more tense to watch. It's definitely worth a look. Here's the...
- 10/5/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
There are two kinds of “what if” story. One plunges viewers into an immediate, all-too-imaginable situation, and invites them to consider how they might act and react; the other casts us into realms of uncanny uncertainty, inviting us to consider the world as we don’t quite know it. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Oscar-nominated 2017 short “Madre” was an expert example of the former, placing us inside the head of a single mother freaking out over a phone call from her young son, who’s abandoned and imperiled on an unidentified beach neither she nor he can pinpoint. A parent’s worst nightmare of the most tightly wound order, it seemed an obvious candidate for feature treatment very much in the other “what if” camp — what was a palpitating mystery gives way to a kind of metaphysical love story, eliding the roles of parent, child and lover.
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- 9/1/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Huppert’s cameo as herself adds some unearned gravitas to this contrived tale of an actor embracing his sexuality
No film featuring Isabelle Huppert can be entirely without interest. But this odd movie from Anne Fontaine is messily structured, self-conscious and preposterous, buried within its own inelegant framing device. The unhappy childhood of a young actor called Marvin is told through childhood flashbacks as the twentysomething adult comes to terms with his sexuality and finally has a staggering stroke of fortune with his career (the sheer flukiness of which is never acknowledged). Finnegan Oldfield plays the adult Marvin in Paris; Jules Porier is his delicate younger self growing up in the sticks, bullied at school and treated with casual cruelty by his unemployed father Dany (a good performance by Grégory Gadebois).
But a number of people turn his life around: kindly headteacher Mme Clément (Catherine Mouchet) encourages him to apply...
No film featuring Isabelle Huppert can be entirely without interest. But this odd movie from Anne Fontaine is messily structured, self-conscious and preposterous, buried within its own inelegant framing device. The unhappy childhood of a young actor called Marvin is told through childhood flashbacks as the twentysomething adult comes to terms with his sexuality and finally has a staggering stroke of fortune with his career (the sheer flukiness of which is never acknowledged). Finnegan Oldfield plays the adult Marvin in Paris; Jules Porier is his delicate younger self growing up in the sticks, bullied at school and treated with casual cruelty by his unemployed father Dany (a good performance by Grégory Gadebois).
But a number of people turn his life around: kindly headteacher Mme Clément (Catherine Mouchet) encourages him to apply...
- 9/13/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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