Ma mère

Christophe Honoré

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Ma mère

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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Variety
Director Christophe Honore's respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel.
50
Village Voice
Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.
50
Christian Science Monitor
Based on a novel by French provocateur Georges Bataille, an important thinker whose fiction rarely translates into good cinema.
50
TV Guide Magazine
For all its shocking content, it remains a rather conventional psychological portrait of Oedipal attraction taken to a disturbing extreme.
40
Chicago Reader
So clinically detached it borders on absurd.
40
The New York Times
Ma Mère may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.
38
New York Daily News
This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
30
L.A. Weekly
Honoré never gets beneath these characters' sunburned skins, and well before the end, the film tips irretrievably over into the realm of absurdity.