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Ma mère
Directed by
Christophe Honoré
NC-17
2004
1h 52m
Drama
,
Romance
4.9
17%
47%
4.5
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When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
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Ma mère Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
A self-satisfied, utterly hollow Bacchanal.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Laura Kelly
This sexually messy, religiously infused film is a perfect example of the dregs of European cinema.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Glazed-over looks, naked flesh, inane philosophizing, and sand dunes announce that we're in Antonioni-land, circa Zabriskie Point.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
110 minutes of Euro silliness mitigated only by the presence of Huppert and the striking ability of the actors to keep a straight face throughout this mess.
Film Freak Central
Bill Chambers
Ma mre could easily be mistaken for the latest anhedonic embarrassment out of Canada
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche, where sexual annihilation is the only response to a fallen world, where all moral bets are off, and where a boy's worst friend is his mother.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
[The climax] involves such a disturbing blend of unhealthy mother-son affection and physical pain that it gives new meaning to the term child -- not to mention audience -- abuse.
San Diego Metropolitan
Jean Lowerison
Ma Mere will have limited appeal, but I suspect it is a fair visual representation of Bataille's libertine philosophical notions.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
The drab bondage buffs in Ma Mere are so sick of life and sick of each other that we get sick of them way before the mother makes good on her threats and turns her son into her Oedi-pal.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
It wallows in repellant imagery rather than enlightening us intellectually in any serious way, and it offers no real psychological insight into the characters.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Honore uses an ultraserious, would-be stylish approach that ultimately renders the depraved proceedings far more boring than titillating.
Premiere Magazine
Peter Debruge
Garrel's performance here reveals Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers for the featherweight fantasy that it was. Ma Mre may appear grungier on the surface, but its themes run far deeper.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It winds up making incest look absurdly swank.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
There's no attempt to get inside the sick minds of Helene and her buddies.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Pretentious Eurotrash.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Ma Mere may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Huppert doesn't turn this object d'cypher role into exactly the sort of gay-son-as-Oedipus tribute that Dan Harris flubbed with last year's Imaginary Heroes.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Lurching toward its inevitable incestuous showdown, Ma Mre makes a few hilarious attempts at the cerebral.
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