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My Mother
- Director: Christophe Honoré
- Writer: Georges Bataille; Christophe Honoré
- Producer: Paulo Branco; Dimitri de Clercq
CGiii Comment
Based on George Bataille's posthumous, controversial and preposterous novel - the decision to make it into a film can only be described as redundant.
The mother is a brute, the son is a bore. The film - with the jerky camera - is a monstrosity.
Filmed, in part, at the Yumbo Centre in Gran Canaria - this building is like a multi-storey, decrepit carpark - stuffed full of cheap venues for cheap people - rather appropriate, for this film is cheap exploitation.
However, the cheap wouldn't want to watch this exercise of vapid vulgarity.
With such source material, anyone could have made this...there is no technical skill involved, the only challenge was to find actors willing to humiliate themselves. This they did without displaying any talent.
Hideous, hideous filmmaking.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Pierre, a youth, comes from his grandmother's in France to stay with his parents in the Canary Islands. His father talks oddly about his lost youth and leaves abruptly for France. Mom promises to take Pierre to a nightclub, remarking that people will think he's her lover. He prays. His father dies in France, and his mother wants him to empty his father's office; Pierre finds it full of pornography. His mother takes him in tow into a night world without morality, a world of sexual exploitation, exhibitionism, and wildness. What will Pierre make of this, and what, ultimately, will he make of his mother?
Cast & Characters
Isabelle Huppert as Helene, the Mother;
Louis Garrel as Pierre, the Son;
Emma de Caunes as Hansi;
Joana Preiss as Rea;
Jean-Baptiste Montagut as Loulou;
Dominique Reymond as Marthe;
Olivier Rabourdin as Robert;
Philippe Duclos as The Father;
Pascal Tokatlian as Klaus;
Theo Hakola as Ian;
Nuno Lopes as The Doctor;
Patrick Fanik as Eric;
Susi Egetenmeier as Woman in dunes;
Sylvia Johnson as Woman of couple