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Man, His Lover and His Mother (A)
- Director: Marcel Gisler
- Writer: Marcel Gisler; Rudolf Nadler
- Producer: Susann Rudlinger
CGiii Comment
Gisler likes to create characters with bipolar appeal...you may love or hate them - but, they certainly get under your skin and cling like a tick.
Independent gay man has to confront his independence-losing Mother - a situation that most of us will face.
Sibylle Brunner plays the mother - Rosie - with hard-drinking, heavy smoking, cantankerous humour - she's adorable and odious in equal measures - a perfectly pitched performance.
Her self-centred son is arrogantly aloof - blinkered, selfish - almost mercenary with his feelings. A finely crafted character...who bends with the situation he's in - but, will he break?
The creativity in front of the camera is assured...a good script with good actors, half the battle is won.
Sadly, and it's obvious that budget constraints were to blame, the technical side is a little shabby...too many 'driving' scenes with a juddery camera.
Given a decent budget, this could have been a very special film indeed. Gisler has the talent - he just needs the money.
Original. Thought-provoking. Familiar.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie refuses both outside assistance and a care home, he discovers that he is stuck fast in his small home town of Altstätten. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis. And when long-kept secrets are suddenly revealed under the tensions of family dynamics, Lorenz almost fails to notice that love is knocking on the front door of his parent's house
Cast & Characters
Sibylle Brunner as Rosie;
Judith Hofmann as Sophie Meran;
Louis Krahenbuhl as Oberarzt;
Fabian Kruger as Lorenz Meran;
Sebastian Ledesma as Mario;
Anna-Katharina Muller as Chantal