Mommy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Mommy
Original title Mommy
Country of production Canada
original language French
Publishing year 2014
length 134 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Xavier Dolan
script Xavier Dolan
production Xavier Dolan,
Nancy Grant
music Noia
camera André Turpin
cut Xavier Dolan
occupation

Mommy is a 2014 Canadian drama film . Directed by Xavier Dolan , who also wrote the script. The film premiered in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2014 and won the Jury Prize there . It was also shortlisted for the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2015 as a Canadian contribution .

action

The fictional outcome of the Canadian elections led to the enactment of a law that allows parents with difficult-to-raise children in distress to hospitalize their offspring without legal difficulties.

Widowed Diane Després picks up her 15-year-old son Steve, who suffers from ADHD and violent outbreaks, from a home. Steve started a fire there that left another child badly burned. Diane tries to make ends meet with her son under severe financial difficulties. After an argument, Steve strangles his mother. Diane can only get out of this situation by force. The neighbor Kyla can calm the situation down and takes care of Steve's wound.

The stuttering Kyla is a teacher, but says she is currently on a sabbatical . Impressed with the calming effects Kyla appears to have on Steve, Diane asks her to give Steve a class so he can graduate. Kyla agrees. The first lesson is not very successful because Steve is intrusive towards her. That same evening, however, Steve apologizes and asks her to continue teaching him. The three become friends and spend many evenings together. Kyla also seems to be doing well the time together, in the presence of the Després she stutters significantly less than with her own family. Everyone's life seems to take a turn for the better when suddenly a legal letter arrives from the parents of the child injured by the fire started by Steve. Diane's attempt to hire a lawyer in the neighborhood to deal with the case, who has already made advances to her in the past, fails.

When the situation seems increasingly hopeless after Steve's attempted suicide, Diane decides to take advantage of the law mentioned at the beginning and send Steve to a psychiatric hospital. Diane fakes a toilet break while on a trip for three with Kyla. Steve sees his mother come back to the car with three carers and tries to escape, but fails and is ultimately immobilized using a taser .

Some time later, Steve calls his mother from the mental hospital. He speaks to her on the mailbox and is clear about what he did to her. Kyla visits Diane shortly after and informs her that she is moving to Toronto with her family. Diane is exuberantly euphoric and congratulates Kyla. When she is alone again, however, she loses her composure and cries. In the last scene you can see Steve pulling away from a carer and running towards a window.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 91% of reviews are positive, out of a total of 95 reviews; the average rating is 8/10. At Metacritic , the film received a rating of 74/100 based on 34 reviews.

The Guardian described the film as "sensational, cross-border pleasure" with "surprising emotional depth". The film-dienst described the film as an “intense, touching drama with powerful image-sound compositions”. The square canvas format "depicts the cramped conditions" and ensures "concentration on the figures centered in the picture". The music in the film was also highlighted.

Zeit Online wrote that after Dolan had dealt with his difficult and hateful relationship with his motherin I Killed My Mother (2009) in a semi-biographical manner, he is now trying to “avenge her”.

Gerhard Midding from epd Film was enthusiastic about Dolan's film, in which he conjured up , “like in Laurence Anyways , a nerve-wracking utopia of togetherness”. "Such a rousing foil à trois" has "never existed in the cinema: a nonchalant mother, her hyperactive son and a traumatized teacher conspire against the narrowness and unreasonable demands of bourgeois life".

Awards

Mommy received 41 awards and another 40 nominations. In addition to the jury award in Cannes, the film won the César for best foreign film and it received two nominations at the Satellite Awards .

In Canada, the film won eight awards at the Jutra Awards and nine awards at the Canadian Screen Awards . The film was voted one of the best ten Canadian films of 2014 by filmmakers at the Toronto International Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Mommy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 031 K).
  2. ↑ 2014 Official Selection . In: Cannes . Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Awards 2014: Competition . In: Cannes . Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Dolan's 'Mommy' Canada's Oscar bid . In: Brampton Guardian . Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Oscars: Canada Picks 'Mommy' For Foreign-Language Category . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Mommy (2015). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Mommy. Metacritic , accessed April 2, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Peter Bradshaw : Cannes 2014 review: Mommy - dearest work yet from Xavier Dolan . In: The Guardian , May 21, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2014. "[...] a splashy, transgressive treat, from [...] surprising emotional depth [...]" 
  9. ↑ Kathrin Häger: Mommy. film-dienst , 23/2014, accessed on April 2, 2015 (short review ).
  10. ↑ Wenke Husmann: Fuck you, Mommy! Zeit Online , May 22, 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 .
  11. ^ Gerhard Midding: Critique of Mommy. epd film , October 20, 2014, accessed April 30, 2015 .
  12. ↑ a b Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed April 2, 2015 .
  13. ^ TIFF Tips Its Toque to the Best in Canadian Filmmaking: Cronenberg, Dolan, and Gunnarson Among Directors Recognized . TIFF. December 1, 2014. Accessed December 21, 2014.
  14. ↑ Linda Barnard: TIFF's Top Ten Film Festival: Spotlight on Canadian film . In: Toronto Star , December 1, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.