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  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Benedetta Barzini wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she is fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and ...

Directed By: Beniamino Barrese

Written By: Malina DeCarlo, Beniamino Barrese

  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 34 m

The Disappearance of My Mother

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Benedetta Barzini wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she is fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and ...

Directed By: Beniamino Barrese

Written By: Malina DeCarlo, Beniamino Barrese

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 25, 2019
The Disappearance of My Mother is rife with grand philosophical questions about beauty, capitalism, love, life, and death, while still maintaining the intimacy of a family connection.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 25, 2019
The result of the collaboration between mother and son brings no great epiphanies but it remains a film that both beguiles and unsettles as it salutes a remarkable woman and the enduring demands of ties that bind.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 25, 2019
This is a tumultuous muse story in which the artist and his inspiration just happen to be blood relations.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 3, 2019
It’s fascinating to see Benedetta Barzini in academic action, like an ethnographer of the patriarchy herself, bringing back news from its most glamourous yet rotten core.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 12, 2019
The film reveals its truest self as a cinematic act of negotiation, acceptance and farewell between mother and son.
By Jen Yamato FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 5, 2019
The Disappearance of My Mother captures the 1960s supermodel turned ’70s (and beyond) Marxist/feminist, a striking figure who raised children by building an afterlife of journalism, activism and education.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
42
Sep 25, 2019
Beyond a commendable amount of love and effort, there’s nothing substantial to take away from The Disappearance of My Mother.
By Jonathan Christian FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nanof, RYOT Films
Release Date Dec 6, 2019
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Tagline Model. Muse. Activist. Rebel.
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Awards

Biografilm Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Master of Art Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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