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Remember how important the present is because the past can weigh you down and you never know what the future holds could be the message of this film from Léonor Serraille, which delicately considers single motherhood from both the adult perspective and that of the child. Beginning in the late Eighties, it spans 20 years, the focal point passes from mum Rose, first to her elder son Jean and then his younger brother Ernest (played in adulthood by Ahmed Sylla), although these are loose framings of what is, essentially a film less about individualism than the unseen ties that burden and bind us in equal measure.
When we meet them, Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean and Ernest (played as young children by Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi) are newly arrived in France from Ivory Coast, living cheek-by-jowl in a room of a relative’s home. Two things are immediately clear. Rose loves her.
When we meet them, Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean and Ernest (played as young children by Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi) are newly arrived in France from Ivory Coast, living cheek-by-jowl in a room of a relative’s home. Two things are immediately clear. Rose loves her.
- 6/29/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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"You're in France now. We're here to help. We're family." Picturehouse in the UK has revealed the official trailer for a French indie drama titled Mother and Son in English, originally known as Un Petit Frère in French. This first premiered at last year's 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the competition (though it didn't win anything), and will open this summer in UK cinemas. Beautifully tender and deeply moving, Mother and Son is a vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives. Centred on a young mother and her two sons after their move from the Ivory Coast to France, the film is an impassioned tale of shifting tensions and identity from writer-director Léonor Serraille (also of Jeune Femme). It also played at the Vienna and Stockholm Fests, and at the American French Film Festival last fall. Starring Annabelle Lengronne as Rose, with Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Sidy Fofana, Ahmed Sylla,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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