Mommy R
Loving people doesn't save them
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon & Suzanne Clément | |
Directed by | Xavier Dolan | |
Edited by | Xavier Dolan | |
Screenwriting by | Xavier Dolan | |
Cinematography by | André Turpin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
The cinematic frame might have contracted, but there's a kind of ferocious compassion in Dolan's vision, and its embrace is startlingly wide.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
The plotting is wayward and haphazard but the film is made and performed with such frankness and emotional intensity that its occasional stumbles never seem a problem.
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Independent (UK)
This film kept surpassing my expectations by keeping its focus on [Anne Dorval's Diane] and not the one who would be the main character of any other film: her at turns charismatic, obnoxious and violent 15-year-old, blonde son, Steve.
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Bitch Flicks
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Dolan loves close-ups and he gives his actors every chance to demonstrate their talent for ringing the emotional changes in a single take.
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Sydney Morning Herald
MOMMY, the story of a troubled young man and his mother, seethes and howls with unchecked feeling. Shot in the square, narrow dimensions of a cellphone video, it is a pocket opera of grandiose self-pity, a wild and uncompromising demand for attention, a cri de coeur from the selfie generation.
New York Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Dolan is a director who thinks hard about the possibilities of cinema and explores them with verve and ingenuity, but it is in his latest film that everything has come together.
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CineVue
Rating: 8/10 --
It's overwhelming, powerful, and bracingly sincere, though my initial reaction was that turning down the dials a bit (it's 139 minutes of fierce family drama) may have served it well.
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Way Too Indie
Product Description:
A working-class Quebec mother struggles to care for her troubled teenage son until a chance encounter with their shy neighbor offers unexpected hope for a brighter future in this affecting drama from director Xavier Dolan. Diane (Anne Dorval) is a single, uneducated mother whose emotionally volatile son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) resides in a government institution for troubled youths. Determined to care for Steve despite the challenges he poses, Diane brings him back home, where his increasingly erratic mood swings pose more of a problem than she anticipated. Just when it begins to appear as if Diane has reached her emotional breaking point, an encounter with her withdrawn neighbor Kyla (Suzanne Clement), a teacher on sabbatical, offers hope for a brighter future. Unfortunately for all three, a violent transgression from Steve's past soon comes back to haunt him, casting a bleak shadow over a situation that had appeared to be improving.
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- Sales Rank: 84,878
- UPC: 031398217244
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