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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
Our Mothers

Summary Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that ...

Directed By: Cesar Diaz

Written By: Cesar Diaz

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m

Our Mothers

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that ...

Directed By: Cesar Diaz

Written By: Cesar Diaz

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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57% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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57% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
May 1, 2020
Cesar Diaz’s debut feature is both compact and ambitious, distilling its larger themes into the core story of one young man and his secretive mother.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 30, 2020
Our Mothers (which won the Caméra d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and is available to watch on demand beginning May 1) is the sort of movie that gets lost in the U.S. when life is normal. It’s a good one to see when you’re anxious, in pain, hypersensitized, uncertain of the ground beneath you, and thinking — maybe for the first time — that you ought to start digging.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 30, 2020
Díaz’s approach is plain and solid, like a well-built wooden chair before varnishing.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
60
May 14, 2020
Diaz wears his heart on his sleeve and elicits affecting performances from his cast, but his portrait of a country in turmoil feels incomplete.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
50
May 1, 2020
Notwithstanding a few genuinely affecting moments, Our Mothers never breaks free from being a standard social-issue movie mostly invested in preaching the cause.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 29, 2020
Around his main character, writer-director César Díaz builds a complex but unpretentious interrogation of national belonging.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
40
May 1, 2020
Clearly Diaz wanted to make a sotto-voce exploration of a difficult and heavy topic — instead of a histrionic melodrama — but in trying to rein in the emotions, he seems to have practically scrubbed them out completely. The screenplay, also by Diaz, is so predictable that most of the characters simply seem to be going through the motions, with audiences remaining at an arm’s length even during the supposedly cathartic final moments.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Need Productions, Perspective Films, Proximus
Release Date May 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Magritte Awards, Belgium
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Pingyao International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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