George Fraser
Pretentious beyond comprehension.If this had been done by the South Park team it might have been hilarious - especially the closing scene - yet it's supposed to be SERIOUS!!!! Sadly it's too naff to even be entertainingly bad.If you want a though-provoking, sexually explicit art-house film, try Y tu Mamma Tambien, or for simply an exercise in rumpy pumpy with high production values give Sex and Lucia a go. Ma Mere simply isn't worth analysing beyond calling it rubbish. It reveals less about the human condition than "Carry on Columbus" and is about a tenth as compelling. The real onanism was taking place on the other side of the camera, methinks.
Pitumisio
This is a movie which I saw two years ago (I am a man) with a woman who suggested we'd watch it while in intimate circumstances. As I do not intend nor feel the need to give details, I will only say I did not see that French girl again. I hardly watched it; just remembered Isabelle Huppert was in the cast.My curiosity -or boredom- was strong last night, and I rented it to see what I'd missed. As I don't understand French I could not even have a gist of what the plot was, but I could last night: a very poor attempt to glamorise perversion and diss catholicism. I am a little bit of a pervert and a feeble religious observant, so I may not be accused of being biased or discriminating European art films.Now I know why I did not feel the need to call her again.
Framescourer
A cinematic version of a world Michel Houellebecq would be familiar with: despondent, cynical middle-aged has-beens lounging around Gran Canaria with its alien landscape beaches and urine-stained town centre in pursuit of sex, irrespective of its foul, loveless origin.Trying to find their way inamongst this existential trash-compactor are a handful of young-uns. Principally we are 'concerned' with Pierre (Louis Garrel) fighting the Oedipal constraints of his life with great breastbeating melodrama. Garrel looks like Bjørn Andresen, the boy-object of desire from Visconti's Death in Venice, and the film has the same fixation with choleric, seaside end-of-days as well as the same wobbly snap-zooms.I think Huppert sticks out awkwardly in this film, but that could very well be the role she needs to fulfil. Once again, sensible critical appraisal of her contribution is very difficult. As for the rest of the cast, full marks for commitment in a project that has the look but not the coherence or poise to do itself justice. 5/10
acrobatbleeder
Sure its got a decent cast, but I need a heck of a lot more than gratuitous BDSM behavior to keep my interest. In fact, I found the film distasteful. If you're into degrading sexual behavior, this one's for you. I don't need it to get off.I suppose its titillating for some and an opportunity to look into a world most of us don't inhabit. On the other hand, most of us don't inhabit that world because it is quite dehumanizing.Its not full of leather and bondage, don't get me wrong, but the relationships and outlook portrayed are an attempt at legitimizing something that its participants would like to rationalize as "just another acceptable way of doing their own thing".
AD
