Watch A Mother For Free

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In 2007,Christine Carrière made one of the most depressive films of the last decade: "Darling" .Eight years later ,the director is almost as pessimistic: her heroine has seen it all before :she wishes she had no son .Their first scene shows that the relationship with Guillaume has reached a dead end.She speaks,he acts as though she 's not here ,she's a piece of furniture ,and he's more interested in the pet(?) iguana : when he deigns to look at her,he just mumbles .Marie,played with remarkable restraint by Mathilde Seignier tries and tries,but her fight is already lost ;she feeds Guillaume,she tries to find him a job, she shows him that she's not that much old ,she tries to be nice with his girlfriend ,she sometimes even takes care of a little girl who is not hers .A woman is not a saint and when he threatens her with a gun ,how can she cope with that?And however she does not consider herself defeated ,and one of the last scenes shows her helping her son write a covering letter,just before he leaves again with his pals (with whom he may or may not have run over and killed a father of four.)Guillaume is considered a deficient teenager by the shrinks and the psychologists ;he may appear selfish and brutal;but he has a sensitive side,he 's a tormented soul : he feels guilt of his girlfriend 's disease whereas there's nothing of the sort ,he tries to draw closer to his grandma ;and Pierre, his mom 's ex-companion is not really a man to pattern yourself upon .Almost all the scenes are filmed in darkness;the only long conversation between Marie and Pierre deals with death ;and if it were not enough,when Guillaume is asked about his possible occupation ,he immediately answers:"undertaker,there's no unemployment " .Even the birthday celebration is sad .Christine Carrière dedicated her movie to her own mom .Like "Darling " ,as French movies specialist Philippe Guenot wrote ,it's not a movie for all tastes ;but in the "feel good"" tendency of the present French scene ,it's good to show the other side of the mirror.Minor quibble:why not a song in French over the final cast and credits?

Once more, I plenty enjoyed this new Mathilde Seignier's character. She plays here a single - divorced - woman and mother of a young seventeen years old juvenile delinquent. A boy suspected of hit and run murder charge and also petty shop lifter. She is here a mother in total distress, nearly to collapse, in never ending daily fights against her son. A real SOB. The audience would dream to beat this little prick. But Mathilde Seignier' s character is not flawless either. You have here a real hard to watch feature, depressing at the most, so close to reality. Don't see it if yourself are ready to commit suicide. And curiously, this movie speaks also of undertakers... A very good drama, but not for all audiences.