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The Mother

  • 2003
  • VM14
  • 1h 52min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,7/10
4814
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The Mother (2003)
Home Video Trailer from Columbia Tristar
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    • Roger Michell
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Hanif Kureishi
  • Star
    • Anne Reid
    • Daniel Craig
    • Anna Wilson-Jones
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,7/10
    4814
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Roger Michell
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Hanif Kureishi
    • Star
      • Anne Reid
      • Daniel Craig
      • Anna Wilson-Jones
    • 62Recensioni degli utenti
    • 66Recensioni della critica
    • 72Metascore
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    • Nominato ai 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 vittorie e 14 candidature totali

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    The Mother
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    The Mother
    The Mother Scene: May Spies Darren
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    The Mother Scene: May Goes To The Gallery
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    The Mother Scene: Why Shouldn't I Be Difficult?
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    The Mother Scene: Why Shouldn't I Be Difficult?
    The Mother Scene: May & Darren Meet
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    The Mother Scene: May & Darren Meet
    The Mother Scene: Darren Asks May Out
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    The Mother Scene: Darren Asks May Out

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    Anne Reid
    Anne Reid
    • May
    Daniel Craig
    Daniel Craig
    • Darren
    Anna Wilson-Jones
    Anna Wilson-Jones
    • Helen
    Peter Vaughan
    Peter Vaughan
    • Toots
    Danira Govic
    Danira Govic
    • Au Pair
    • (as Danira Govich)
    Harry Michell
    Harry Michell
    • Harry
    Rosie Michell
    • Rosie
    Izabella Telezynska
    Izabella Telezynska
    • Polish Cleaner
    Steven Mackintosh
    Steven Mackintosh
    • Bobby
    Cathryn Bradshaw
    Cathryn Bradshaw
    • Paula
    Carlo Kureishi
    • Jack
    Sachin Kureishi
    • Jack
    Simon Mason
    • Man in Tate Gallery
    Oliver Ford Davies
    Oliver Ford Davies
    • Bruce
    Jonah Coombes
    • Estate Agent
    Zelda Tinska
    Zelda Tinska
    • Barmaid
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      • Roger Michell
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Hanif Kureishi
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    9Hedgehog_Carnival

    Michell redeems himself

    It's hard to imagine a director capable of such godawful crap as 'Notting Hill' pulling off something as sensitive and as attractive as this, but well, here's the evidence and it's quite compelling. Several have alluded to TV drama, and yes, this does have a seventies Play for Today feel at times, but is always a cut above, mainly I think owing to some quite superlative acting from Anne Reid and to a fine script which shadow-boxes with cliché without ever getting one on the nose, except maybe right at the end. (I didn't like either the tracking shot of indifferent goodbyes through the hallway, nor the oh-what-a-beautiful-morning final scene: she deserved a more studied finale than that I think, after all that hard work. The slippers business was a bit OTT too, on reflection).

    What I mean about avoiding cliché: well, I for one had a sinking expectation that the "mature" man May's daughter tries to set her up with would be cast in 2 dimensions as a repulsive old bore, so as to point the contrast more painfully with the attractive, virile young geezer he is unwittingly competing with. Instead, we get an unexpectedly subtle and sympathetic cameo of a lonely, clumsy, not entirely unlikeable and very human fellow, who nevertheless doesn't have much of a clue about entertaining a woman. It was around that point I started to sit up and pay more attention. Here was a script that let the actors breathe and do something interesting with fairly minor parts. Almost Mike Leigh in that respect (minus the contrived catharses that the latter inexplicably goes in for).

    And of course I was, as everyone probably was, dumbfounded by what Anne Reid does with her character and with her body. She's /not/ "the repressed, dutiful housewife discovering herself for the first time", this is far too simplistic for the character we have. Again and again there are allusions to her having been a "bad housewife", not to mention that thing she does with trays, trying to look nurturing and comely and only succeeding in looking awkward. The daughter accuses her of having "sat in front of the TV all day" instead of, well, whatever her motherly duties might be presumed to have been: she has no answer. She never was a model wife and mother, at least not to herself - that's where a lot of the poignancy comes from, the sense of someone having wasted a life trying to fulfil a role she simply wasn't good at, ever.
    6Philby-3

    Fine acting, but no-one to like in this family

    There's a very fine review by law prof on these pages and not much for me to add. Ann Reid puts in a superb performance as the middle-aged mum whose desires are re-awakened by her bullying husband's sudden death and Daniel Craig plays the Rough Trade tradesman with great gusto. There's also a wonderful cameo from Oliver Ford Davies as an elderly and inept suitor for Mum's hand. The story is told very clearly with sparkling photography – the cheerful visual atmosphere being rather at odds with the grim storyline.

    My problem however with the film is that everyone in it is either completely repulsive (eg the son and daughter in law and the rough tradesman) or is behaving badly. Mum is a sympathetic character but she makes all the wrong choices, and behaves pretty selfishly, though we do get an inkling as to why. She wouldn't be the first Mum to kick over the traces after a long marriage to a dominant partner. But we wind up feeling sorry for her daughter rather than Mum because she gets done over, not because she is otherwise sympathetic.

    The trouble with movies like this that, though they are true to life and emotionally convincing, they leave an unpleasant aftertaste. Are we all that selfish and immature? Well, families are dangerous places and the majority of murders are committed by a member of the victim's families, but relatively speaking murder is a rare crime. Competition between mother and daughter for the same (trashy) lover is probably pretty rare also. When it does happen, a film about it is probably justified. Still, at the end we wind up with no-one to like, which rather muffles the impact of the story.
    9MOscarbradley

    Shockingly Intelligent

    A fierce, shockingly intelligent piece of work from the gifted British writer Hanif Kureishi who wrote "My Beautiful Laundrette", (this is the best thing he's done since then). It's about intelligent people whose lives don't add up to much. They've squandered what they have been given and are largely empty vessels. The only character on screen who is alive is the mother of the title yet she feels dead inside until a rough handyman shows her some affection and awakens her to the joys of sex. He has his own motives but Kureishi treats him with a good deal of compassion. This is a film in which people and places feel familiar, where characters exist beyond the confines of the screen. In some respects it's a bit like "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" but it's an altogether tougher piece of work. The director, Roger Michell, allows scenes to build instinctively. And it is beautifully acted.

    As the eponymous mother Anne Reid betrays her wasted life in every gesture. There is not a false note in her extraordinarily lived-in performance, and that very fine actor Daniel Craig displays shadings to his character than even Kureishi hasn't tapped into. If the film strikes a false note it is, perhaps, in the character of the talentless daughter, caught up in a messy affair with the man her mother seduces (or should that be the other way round) and even messier life, but she is so well played by Cathryn Bradshaw she hooks you in nevertheless. The film is also extremely beautiful to look at (DoP Alwin Kuchler) and must rank, unhesitatingly, as the best British film of the year.
    9Sleepin_Dragon

    Who wants Bruce when you can have James Bond?

    The Mother is a very intelligent drama, one that would guarantee to have you talking, a taboo topic that isn't often visited. The question, how should someone when they're in advanced years, retired and had families behave? Should they put their slippers on and await the inevitable Nursing Home, or should they go wild, grabbing opportunities as they arise.

    The story is a complex one, but intelligent and thought provoking. The main thing i'm sure many will ask is, is May a good person or not? Do her feelings for Darren come from a good place, come from grief, or has a hidden passion burned away her entire life? I felt bad for Paula, a daughter slightly messed up, who's set to find out the worst possible news about the love of her life.

    Superb performances, Anne Reid is phenomenal as May, she totally steals the show with a powerhouse performance, where she displays passion and total apathy. Daniel Craig is also superb, you can totally believe in May falling for his character, handsome, care free, but all is not as it seems.

    Brilliant, and a reminder of how good the quality of film making is from The BBC, I ask though, why has this style of show vanished from our screens?

    Quality viewing, 9/10
    8samuelding85

    When a mother's love hurts

    While movie titles contains the word 'Mother', the first thing that comes to our mind will be a mother's love for her children.

    However, The Mother tells a different story.

    The Mother do not discuss the love between a mother and her child, or how she sacrifice herself for the benefit of her child. Here, Notting Hill director Roger Michell tells us how a mother's love for a man about half of her age hurts the people around her.

    Before Daniel Craig takes on the role of James Bond, here, he plays Darren, a man who is helping to renovate the house of the son of the mother, and sleeping with her daughter as well. Anne Reid, who was a familiar face on TV series, takes up the challenging role of the leading character, May.

    The story begins with May coping with the sudden loss of her husband, Toots, in a family visit to her son, Bobby. While she befriends Darren, a handyman who is doing some renovation in Bobby's house, she was shocked to found out that her daughter, Paula, was sleeping with Darren. At the same time, May was coping with life after the death of Toots. Fearing that Harry and Paula do not wanted her, May starts to find her life going off track, until she spends her afternoon with Darren.

    Darren was nice and friendly to May, and May soon finds some affection on Darren. Instead of treating him like a friend, she treated the man who was about half her age with love of a couple. Later, May found sexual pleasure from Darren, where he gave her the pleasure she could never find on anyone else. And this is the beginning of the disaster that could lead to the break down of a family.

    The Mother explores the inner world of a widow who wanted to try something she never had in her life, and solace on someone who is there for her to shoulder on. This can be told from May buying tea time snacks for Darren to fulfilling sexual needs from a man younger than her, where it eventually gave her more than she bargained for.

    Anne Reid has made a breakthrough for her role of May, as she was previously best well known for her various role on TV series. As she do not have much movies in her career resume, The Mother has put her on the critic's attention. Daniel Craig, on the other hand, had took on a similar role in his movie career, such as Sylvia (2003) and Enduring Love (2004). If his reprising role of James Bond fails, film reviewers should not forget that he has a better performance in small productions in his years of movie career, and The Mother is one of them.

    The Mother may not be everyone's favorite, but it is definitely not your usual matinée show to go along with tea and scones, accompanied by butter and jam.

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      The first feature film funded entirely by the BBC (courtesy of the British taxpayers).
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      When May is telling Darren about her affair and just before she asks him to take her to bed, Darren does not have a carpenter's pencil in his ear. When we see him a few moments later, the pencil is over his ear.
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      May: Oh, Darren. This cigarette's making my chest all congested. I can't breathe.

      Darren: What would happen if you did breathe?

      May: I'd say, would you... would it be too much trouble... spare rooms... would you come to the spare rooms with me... would you...

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    • Data di uscita
      • 16 gennaio 2004 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Sony Pictures Classics (United States)
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • 母親的春天
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Notting Hill, London, Greater London, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(on location)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • BBC Film
      • Free Range Films
      • Renaissance Films
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    • Budget
      • 2.500.000 USD (previsto)
    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 1.063.163 USD
    • Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 61.913 USD
      • 30 mag 2004
    • Lordo in tutto il mondo
      • 3.039.587 USD
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      • Dolby Digital
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