• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
  • Contact us
  • Guest Content
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
    • Elevenses
  • Business
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Property
  • JOBS
  • All
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Sport
    • Tech/Auto
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Film

My Mother/Mia Madre : Film Review

By Leslie Pitt @Afrofilmviewer Nanni Moretti’s latest feature certainly feels like a personal feature. The film deals with an overworked political filmmaker (Margherita Buy), who struggles to cope with balancing her working life while the trauma of a dying matriarch lingers over both herself and her brother (Moretti). The personal elements of the film creep […]

Leslie Byron Pitt by Leslie Byron Pitt
2015-09-23 11:42
in Film, Film Reviews, New Movies
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

By Leslie Pitt @Afrofilmviewer

Nanni Moretti’s latest feature certainly feels like a personal feature. The film deals with an overworked political filmmaker (Margherita Buy), who struggles to cope with balancing her working life while the trauma of a dying matriarch lingers over both herself and her brother (Moretti).

The personal elements of the film creep through not only in the film within a film aspect (which hints at the directors left leaning sensibilities in on a surface level), but with the main thrust of the narrative. Moretti’s own mother passed during the making of his previous feature, and it’s clear from many of the events that occur within the film, Moretti is trying to highlight how such a tragedy permeates through a person’s life, and when the film focuses on the drama, it mostly succeeds.

My Mother’s greatest strength comes from its cast. Margherita Buy, brings a superlative performance as an upfront and direct women, slowly imploding under the strain of her mother’s impending demise. (Moretti left leaning sensibilities are apparent within the film within the film),

Some undercooked subplots are coupled with an over egged john T who looks like his come from a different set to derail both the film he’s in and the film his pretending to be in

This melodrama doesn’t do too badly combining warm comedy with affecting drama, with great female performances. But the film doesn’t hit the complavitive feeling that you’d absorb from Tokyo Story, nor does its director in self crisis achieve anything like 8 ½. The dream sequences here are dreadfully flat.

Those are typical go to references but then again the film at times is quite typical. Refusing to over exhert itself in any real way. It’s drama is quietly effective, it’s humour a tad too over blown. It switches modes abruptly leaving you unsure in wether to go with it.

Yet it’s female centre shows why the Europeans are ahead of us. The lead is a woman in charge of large social cinema project. Her relationships appear but are not her focus, and though the crisis, she never comes across as weak. Even in moments of despair. (Kudos for having a director wandering around aimlessly in an airport as a metaphor for being directionless.)

My Mother is released into cinemas September 25th.

RelatedPosts

Richard Curtis uses Al Pacino’s Any Given Sunday speech to inspire global action on climate change

Final Thoughts on Cannes 2023

Cannes 2023 Film Review: La Chimera

Cannes 2023 Film Review: Last Summer

Previous Post

Diego Costa: Hero or Villain?

Next Post

Restaurant Industry ‘Uberised’ with Bill Splitting App

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

More from TLE

Rishi Sunak mulling over watering down net zero commitments – report

Mark Carney obliterates Brexit and Liz Truss at world leader event

Aldi launches new ‘Domino’s inspired’ delivery service with pizzas for just £4

Boris Johnson blasts Sunak for ‘lack of ambition’ on net zero

Sophy Ridge take on Russell Brand story is essential viewing

Oxbridge dethroned as Scottish university named best in UK

Number of pubs shutting for good across England and Wales jumps 50%

Rishi ‘seven bins’ ruthlessly trolled over net zero speech

Sean Lock obliterates Russell Brand on live TV in resurfaced 2014 clip

Tory Lee Anderson found to have broke MPs’ code

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Commercial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




-->