Mia madre

Sometimes feelsy as hell (the character's incredibly hostile relationship with her vulnerable mother), sometimes it's an absolute hoot to watch (any of the film-making scenes, and Turturro's scenes, and especially the film-making with Turturro scenes). I look forward to Buy and Turturro getting absolutely snubbed this awards season.

I take this movie as an elegy for the past generations, for ancient and noble values (latin teacher mother, industrial society, social-realist movies) and in general for the heaviness of the time passing by. Apart from that, yes, it is a sincere and elegant family portrait which tries to grasp the Zeitgeist of our time but for me it offers nothing special and will remain as a decent movie.

Not quite sure of the impact of the family situations -- the divorce stuff is out of place --, but the film-within-a-film about labor, strike and these workers losing their jobs after the arrival of a new business' owner seems near brilliant, specially when Turturro forgets a line or completely loses his mind during a scene or tells Margherita he (kinda) worked with Kubrick. Strong film about arrogance -- the filmmaker never stops filming, the brother abandons his job --, not so much about loss.

Brilliant, wunderschön, witzig und traurig ist Nannis Morettis neuer Film! Margherita fällt es schwer, einfach "Action" zu sagen, so dass die Szene gespielt werden kann. In Gedanken ist sie bei ihrer Mutter Ada, die im Krankenhaus liegt und stirbt. Barry Huggins, der Hollywood Star, den Margherita für ihren neuen Film verpflichtet hat, tritt schliesslich an die Regisseurin heran und legt seine Hand auf ihre Wange... mehr auf cinegeek.de

Mia madre [My Mother] (2015) a simple family observation of a film director who has to cope with her mother slowly dying while she has to focus on filming and handling temperamental actors. Realistic movie that hold back probable a little too much to really nail the heart. The one to really stand out in this French/Italian film was American actor John Turturro, sort of serving as the clown, the one to break the film out of it's mundane tone.

"Acting is a waste of time and a waste of a life. I want out of here, man! I wanna go back to reality! ...Take me back to reality."

Quietly moving and often very funny. Few handles death in the family better than Moretti.