Ma Mère

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Isabelle Huppert as Hélène
• Louis Garrel as Pierre
• Emma de Caunes as Hansi
• Joana Preiss as Réa
• Jean-Baptiste Montagut as Loulou
• Dominique Reymond as Marthe
• Olivier Rabourdin as Robert
• Philippe Duclos as Father

Storyline:

Pierre, a youth, comes from his grandmother’s in France to stay with his parents in the Canary Islands. His father talks oddly about his lost youth and leaves abruptly for France. Mom promises to take Pierre to a nightclub, remarking that people will think he’s her lover. He prays. His father dies in France, and his mother wants him to empty his father’s office; Pierre finds it full of pornography. His mother takes him in tow into a night world without morality, a world of sexual exploitation, exhibitionism, and wildness. What will Pierre make of this, and what, ultimately, will he make of his mother?

About Movie:

Ma Mère is a erotic drama film written and directed by Christophe Honoré, based on the posthumous 1966 novel of the same name by French author Georges Bataille. The film stars Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes and Joana Preiss.

An international co-production of France, Portugal, Spain and Austria, the film was shot on location on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Its dialogue is almost entirely in French with brief segments in Spanish, German and English.

Ma Mère was released in France on 19 May 2004 by Gemini Films, in Portugal on 1 July 2004 by Leopardo Filmes and in Austria on 20 July 2007 by Poool Filmverleih. The film was rated NC-17 upon its release in the United States on 13 May 2005, due to “strong and aberrant sexual content”.

For the trailer, the film was presented as an NC-17 film while mistakenly defining the rating as “under 17 requires supervision by parent or guardian” (which is the definition of the R rating).

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