Motherfucker

Surely you're not suggesting I'm jotting down a few lines about the latest entry in The Big Book of Contemporary Cinematic Euro-Trash, Ma mère (Christophe Honoré, 2004), just so I can put that profane title at the top of the page? Surely not. In any case, the film, with its lush sunlit villas, oft-used pools, absents fathers and slutty mothers, is not really worth seeing. Isabelle Huppert is the mom of the title, and the mother-whore-cocktease to her bewildered teenage son. When pop turns in, the mother-son relationship becomes even more complicated. Explicit sex, La Pianiste-style S&M, and the usual mind games. Fancy that!

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