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Mommy (2014)

Drama | 139 minutes
3,71 626 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 139 minuten

Country: Canada

Directed by: Xavier Dolan

Stars: Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément and Antoine Olivier Pilon

IMDb score: 8,0 (63.861)

Releasedate: 19 September 2014

Mommy plot

As a single parent, a widow is tasked with taking care of her abusive son, who is difficult to train. She finds support when a mysterious neighbor starts to settle in the household of the two. This woman gives the mother the support she needs.

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IH88

  • 9438 messages
  • 3155 votes

“Loving people doesn't save them.”

Heartbreakingly beautiful. Mommy is a movie that can make you laugh one minute, and punch you in the stomach the next. Fantastic acting, strong directing and camera work (the use of colors is fantastic), and the music is perfectly chosen. Dorval and Pilon as mother/son Diane and Steve are unparalleled and you feel the love, despair and sadness. But Clément might be even better as neighbor Kyla, who struggles to communicate and bond with Diane and Steve.

You see her getting some fun in life again, but on the other hand she is also an interesting character full of ambiguity. Is she just a Good Samaritan? Or did she experience something similar to Steve in her childhood? The movie wisely doesn't answer this, and that only makes its storyline better. The scenes at the end stand out in terms of emotion, but the scene in which Diane and Kyla drink wine together and burst out laughing is also great. You feel the bond between the three characters, but you also know that this can't go well for long.

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jordorientje

  • 488 messages
  • 431 votes

Beautiful movie. Be quiet.

Well acted, good story, not a moment boring or bored and you are taken as a viewer into the many emotions. Goosebumps and a tear. I understand that people experience this as screaming and intense. If you have never had such a childhood yourself or if you do not come from such a family/family/relationship, you are quite normal and you find this of course very extreme. Unfortunately, it is like this in many families, so it is not intense or violent for these people, but a mirror that is held up to them.

Have nothing to say. fat 10.

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Onderhond

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Despite Dolan's still simple explanation for the 1:1, it just remains a very ugly and not very functional format. If you want to ensure that the viewer cannot escape from characters, you simply place them in the center of the screen, 1:1 is just a poor palliative.

But that was definitely not my biggest problem with this movie. In the end, it mostly reminded me of the Dardennes movies. Social dramas that put human ugliness in the spotlight. Steve may be portrayed here as a problem child, I don't even see the difference with his mother, an equally big screamer.

If that noise wasn't enough, there's also a terrible soundtrack, some kind of worst hits compilation of pop music that is bad enough that they are still played on the radio every now and then.

I didn't find the film claustrophobic, just boring and boring. Too bad the best scene is the suicide attempt, I think the only moment when everyone shuts up. Think this is more of a film by a 50-year-old than a 25-year-old, Dolan is definitely not the future of cinema as far as I'm concerned.

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