My Mother
– Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is ..
Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
19 May 2004
French, English, German, Spanish
No One 17 and Under Admitted. Clearly adult. Children are not admitted.
Christophe Honoré
Georges Bataille (novel), Christophe Honoré
Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss
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?
2 nominations.
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