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06/24/06
Ma Mere (2005)
12 %
Reviews Counted: 41 Fresh: 5 Rotten:36 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus:
Pretentious, overly perverse and dull.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Francois Montagut, Dominique Reymond
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This is a bold and difficult film, examining intensely personal issues and letting us in as voyeurs.
05/06/05
The philosophising feels bolted on and the motivations of all the characters soon become simply too alien to comprehend.
04/09/05
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Most of the screenplay consists of meandering and inebriated characters talking just as high-falutin'.
02/26/07
This sexually messy, religiously infused film is a perfect example of the dregs of European cinema.
08/11/05
Glazed-over looks, naked flesh, inane philosophizing, and sand dunes announce that we’re in Antonioni-land, circa Zabriskie Point.
07/31/05
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.
07/29/05
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Ma mère could easily be mistaken for the latest anhedonic embarrassment out of Canada
07/15/05
Probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche, where sexual annihilation is the only response to a fallen world, where all moral bets are off, and where a boy's worst friend is his mother.
07/08/05
[The climax] involves such a disturbing blend of unhealthy mother-son affection and physical pain that it gives new meaning to the term child -- not to mention audience -- abuse.
07/07/05
Ma Mere will have limited appeal, but I suspect it is a fair visual representation of Bataille's libertine philosophical notions.
07/05/05
A little perversity never hurt anyone. But the French film Ma Mere has a lot of perversity and it hurts everyone -- including the people in the audience who don't get up and walk out.
07/01/05
It could stand as Exhibit A for why French auteurs are a tough sell to the average seeker of entertainment.
07/01/05
The translation from the highly literary to the literalness of film isn't easy and too often, Ma Mère feels like a parody.
07/01/05
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MA MERE opens in NYC & LA on Friday the 13th (MAY 2005) - ADULTS ONLY/NC-17!!!
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