My Mother
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Universal acclaim- based on 98 Ratings
- Summary: A disturbing relationship develops between an attractive widow (Huppert) and her teenage son (Garrel).
- Director: Christophe Honoré
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 19
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Mixed: 10 out of 19
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Negative: 7 out of 19
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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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50For all its shocking content, it remains a rather conventional psychological portrait of Oedipal attraction taken to a disturbing extreme.
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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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If you are at all squeamish about incest and/or prefer sex scenes without violent undertones, you should avoid this movie.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 3 out of 6
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