Mothering Sunday

Name: Mothering Sunday
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 19, 2021
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Alfredo Tavares, Caroline Harker, Charlie Oscar, Colin Firth, Deano Bugatti

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 19, 2021 | R

Starring: Alfredo Tavares, Caroline Harker, Charlie Oscar, Colin Firth, Deano Bugatti, Forrest Bothwell, Glenda Jackson, Josh O'Connor, Odessa Young, Olivia Colman, Simon Shepherd, Sope Dirisu

Summary: On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’sOn a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.… Expand

Director: Eva Husson

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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Jennie Punter

Apr 11, 2022

Mothering Sunday, which unfolds on one day in the 1920s English countryside, is an exquisite expression of the female gaze that sifts through the memories, reveries, and revelations of a writer and explores—in a story that captures “the whole feeling of life,” as one character puts it— how she became one. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 11, 2021

Husson leads us through tiny moments building up an origin story of sorts for who Jane will become. These experiences and these observations become the basis of a book about life’s beauty and tragedy binding us in ways that transcend economic and social standing. Read full review

Mark Kermode

Nov 14, 2021

It’s the more deceptively restrained and poetic elements that strike home. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Katie Rife

Mar 25, 2022

On an intuitive, sensual level, “Mothering Sunday” is intoxicating. As a story with plot and characters, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Read full review

Robert Abele

Mar 24, 2022

It’s an unhurried reverie that’s sometimes as wonderfully sustained as a fermata but also occasionally stifling due to filmmaker Eva Husson’s dedication to that tonal approach above all else. Read full review

Andy Howell

Sep 13, 2021

Another problem with the film is the pacing. The main story is interesting enough, but it just feels padded and stretched. Read full review

Ella Kemp

Nov 22, 2021

There is pain worth immortalising in the stories of the past, and endless sadness found in a lonely woman’s quiet existence. Yet Mothering Sunday fails to look beyond what the outside world can see, in order to really excavate a truth to be remembered once the holiday has passed. Read full review

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Habibiehakim

Feb 27, 2022

The first 50 minutes of Mothering Sunday is disasterly bad, i like when a movie is straight to the point of the story and not wasting any time, but i hate when a movie was just straight to a one particular character with no characterisation at all, and that's what i feel for Paul and JaneThe first 50 minutes of Mothering Sunday is disasterly bad, i like when a movie is straight to the point of the story and not wasting any time, but i hate when a movie was just straight to a one particular character with no characterisation at all, and that's what i feel for Paul and Jane relationship, they just make out out of nowhere, and that's making it me didn't have any feeling for them especially Paul, i have zero care and even any likeness feeling for him, and that whole thing with him and Jane is just pointless and just an awkward position for me seeing them making out and me as an audience still asking "Who the f*ck are you (Paul)", anyway that happen for the first 50 minutes of the film and the rest is just fine, i'm not as crazy as before, i was invested till the end of the film, i enjoying it, i did overall like Odessa Young performance, Olivia Colman is just the best, and so do the rest except of course Josh O'Connor (Paul), so basically Mothering Sunday is a half bad and half good or more of like half ok movie, i cannot go higher because the 50 minutes of the film is just unforgivable and i even plan to stop, it's a 5 at it's best.… Expand

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