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Mother Tongue

Country: Argentina, Language: Spanish, 78 mins

Original Title

Lengua Materna
  • Director: Liliana Paolinelli
  • Writer: Liliana Paolinelli
  • Producer: Cristina Fasulino; Paula Grandio

CGiii Comment

Ruth is in her forties and has been in a relationship with a female politician for a long time. However, to her mother Estela, they have always been "friends". Until one day the mother discovers (or stops denying) that her daughter is a lesbian. After the initial shock, she makes an enormous effort to understand the situation and get familiar with the issue (she buys books, goes to gay bars, talks with her friends). The problem for Ruth is that Estela, in her attempt to accept her, begins to interfere more and more in her life, in her home and even in the relationship with her partner, who is not going through its best moment. Estela seems to have no limits: she goes from initial inaction to invasion of privacy. The roles are reversed and now it is the daughter who must accept the mother she has.


Una mujer se entera de que su hija, que ronda los 40 es gay. La madre intenta comprender las reglas de un mundo que no conoce, en tanto la hija, que está atravesando una tormenta emocional, ve el interés de su madre como una intromisión. Los roles se invierten y es la hija quien debe aceptar a la madre que tiene.


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Cast & Characters

Nancy Anka;
Claudia Cantero;
Virginia Innocenti;
Ana Katz;
Claudia Lapaco;
Mara Santucho;
Maria Simone