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Ma mère
35
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by
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50
Variety
Scott Foundas
Variety
Scott Foundas
Director Christophe Honore's respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel.
50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Based on a novel by French provocateur Georges Bataille, an important thinker whose fiction rarely translates into good cinema.
50
TV Guide Magazine
Ken Fox
TV Guide Magazine
Ken Fox
For all its shocking content, it remains a rather conventional psychological portrait of Oedipal attraction taken to a disturbing extreme.
40
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
So clinically detached it borders on absurd.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Ma Mère may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
30
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
Honoré never gets beneath these characters' sunburned skins, and well before the end, the film tips irretrievably over into the realm of absurdity.
25
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Huppert is wonderful, as usual, and she's to be congratulated for taking this daring role. But, alas, even she can't save Ma Mere.
10
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Degrading, disgusting and depressing.
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