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  • 2006
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2006
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
The Whore's Son

Summary At the age of three, Ozren only has to watch his mother while she's sleeping to know that she's the most beautiful woman in the world. At the age of nine, he doesn't understand why people swear at him on the street, calling him a whore's son: his mother works as a waitress and that’s the only reason she's hardly ever at home in the eveni...

Directed By: Michael Sturminger

Written By: Michael Glawogger, Gabriel Loidolt, Michael Sturminger

  • 2006
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2006
  • Picture This! Entertainment
  • 1 h 26 m

The Whore's Son

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary At the age of three, Ozren only has to watch his mother while she's sleeping to know that she's the most beautiful woman in the world. At the age of nine, he doesn't understand why people swear at him on the street, calling him a whore's son: his mother works as a waitress and that’s the only reason she's hardly ever at home in the eveni...

Directed By: Michael Sturminger

Written By: Michael Glawogger, Gabriel Loidolt, Michael Sturminger

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
49
11% Positive
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89% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
49
11% Positive
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89% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Adapted from a novel by Gabriel Loidolt, this is most interesting for its textured family history and pained religiosity.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
60
The film fearlessly plumbs the depths of this intense mother-son relationship, and also explores the ways in which role models affect children's lives.
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50
In the end, Sturminger's virginal insistence on draining the mother-son relationship of all eros also drains it of interest.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
50
The grave comic presence of Miki Manojlovic (from Kusturica's Underground) as Ozren's worldly uncle stabilizes the movie's tantalizingly uncertain tone, at least until its bizarre closing plunge into Oedipal catharsis.
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50
Austrian director Michael Sturminger's debut feature creates a visually evocative environment in which to explore some significant themes, from religious repression to Freudian guilt.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Works better as a look at life among a family of Croatian immigrants in Vienna during the nightmare years of the Balkan conflicts than an exploration of the psychosexual tension between a prostitute and her son.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
40
The misfortune, of Michael Stürminger's low-boil melodrama is that it's entirely too familiar. Underneath the movie's cool surface beats the heart of a 1940s tear-jerker. It's a subzero "Stella Dallas."
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Production Company Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Tarantula
Release Date Apr 28, 2006
Duration 1 h 26 m
Genres
Tagline In spite of everything, she's still your mom.
Website http://comingofagemovies.com/titles/whoresson/index.html
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Awards

Max Ophüls Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Schwerin Art of Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Undine Awards, Austria
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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