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Mother and Son

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Mother and Son

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Arthaus | Release Date: TBA | Not Rated

Starring: Ahmed Sylla, Annabelle Lengronne, Audrey Kouakou, Etienne Minoungou, Jean-Christophe Folly, Kenzo Sambin, Laetitia Dosch, Stéphane Bak, Thibaut Evrard

Summary: In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

Director: Léonor Serraille

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Variety

Guy Lodge

May 27, 2022

Inspired by the life and roots of her children’s father, Serraille’s original screenplay embeds tacit, national-scale socioeconomic commentary in its intimate domestic story, though smartly avoids making blunt symbols of its sharp, specific characters. Read full review

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

May 27, 2022

Serraille, whose debut feature Jeune Femme won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2017, has returned with a film that feels like a jewellery box of telling moments: there is precious stuff here, and real sparkle too. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 27, 2022

Here is a film about a very complicated and painful kind of coming of age, or maybe a meditation on “coming of age” as something that never actually happens; it also examines the illusory dividing line between childhood and adulthood, innocence and experience, present and past. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Diego Semerene

Aug 22, 2022

Léonor Serraille’s Mother and Son is a lovely film about feminine strength that also refuses to glorify motherhood. Read full review

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Screen Daily

Wendy Ide

May 27, 2022

Although Mother And Son loses some of its energy as it unfolds, it is still a sensitive and complex examination of the shifting tensions in a migrant family. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Lovia Gyarkye

May 27, 2022

Léonor Serraille’s film Mother and Son contains moving strokes, but struggles to make a lasting emotional dent. Read full review

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Little White Lies

Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jul 27, 2023

The writing cannot match the poignancy of Lengronne’s performance. Her emotional immediacy is more interesting than the epic, yet comparatively muted scope of the film. Read full review

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