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- MK2 Films
- 1 h 56 m
- MK2 Films
- 1 h 56 m
Summary In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Directed By: Léonor Serraille
Written By: Léonor Serraille
- MK2 Films
- 1 h 56 m
- MK2 Films
- 1 h 56 m
Mother and Son
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Summary In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Directed By: Léonor Serraille
Written By: Léonor Serraille
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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5 Reviews
29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Inspired by the life and roots of her children’s father, Serraille’s original screenplay embeds tacit, national-scale socioeconomic commentary in its intimate domestic story, though smartly avoids making blunt symbols of its sharp, specific characters.
Serraille, whose debut feature Jeune Femme won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2017, has returned with a film that feels like a jewellery box of telling moments: there is precious stuff here, and real sparkle too.
Here is a film about a very complicated and painful kind of coming of age, or maybe a meditation on “coming of age” as something that never actually happens; it also examines the illusory dividing line between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience, present and past.
Léonor Serraille’s Mother and Son is a lovely film about feminine strength that also refuses to glorify motherhood.
Although Mother And Son loses some of its energy as it unfolds, it is still a sensitive and complex examination of the shifting tensions in a migrant family.
The writing cannot match the poignancy of Lengronne’s performance. Her emotional immediacy is more interesting than the epic, yet comparatively muted scope of the film.
Léonor Serraille’s film Mother and Son contains moving strokes, but struggles to make a lasting emotional dent.
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Production Company
Blue Monday Productions,
France 3 Cinéma,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
France Télévisions,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
La Région Île-de-France,
Région Normandie,
Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma,
Fonds Images de la Diversité,
Agence Nationale pr Cohésion des Territoires,
Palatine Étoile 18,
Cofinova 17,
Ciclic-Region Centre-Val de Loire,
Cofinova Développement
Duration 1 h 56 m
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Awards
Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
