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63Ma Mere, with its sun-drenched sense of dread and band of reckless, unlikable characters, isn't very good, but that doesn't stop the actors -- especially the intrepid Huppert -- from going all the way.
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63Isn't for the kiddies. It probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche.
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50Based on a novel by French provocateur Georges Bataille, an important thinker whose fiction rarely translates into good cinema.
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50For all its shocking content, it remains a rather conventional psychological portrait of Oedipal attraction taken to a disturbing extreme.
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50It's pretentious highbrow trash, but as far as that goes it works pretty well.
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50Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.
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50Director Christophe Honore's respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel.
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42Ma Mère, while less prudish than Catherine Breillat's dour deconstructions of sex, is also less competent. It winds up making incest look absurdly swank.
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40Yet another stylish exercise in depravity in which Huppert floats through the sordid proceedings in a calm haze. If only the film she inhabits was as sexy as it aspires to be.
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40At first, Ma Mère is shocking and even alluring, but it doesn't take long for the conceit to wear thin, especially since the characters so rarely act as recognizable humans.
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40Ma Mère may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.
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40So clinically detached it borders on absurd.
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If you are at all squeamish about incest and/or prefer sex scenes without violent undertones, you should avoid this movie.
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38This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
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30Honoré never gets beneath these characters' sunburned skins, and well before the end, the film tips irretrievably over into the realm of absurdity.
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25Huppert is wonderful, as usual, and she's to be congratulated for taking this daring role. But, alas, even she can't save Ma Mere.
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25110 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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10Degrading, disgusting and depressing.
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10Involves 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.
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