Mother's Day

  • Drama
8/27/1948
22

Storyline

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

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  • Geronimo1967

    "Mother was the loveliest woman in the world". "Mother wanted everything to be lovely". Using a series of embryonic lighting techniques, a lively piano-based score and a series of not altogether coherent mini-sketches, we are presented with what appear to be memories of a couple, of them falling in love, of her widowhood and then more courting. She looks lovingly from her window, pining for what she had, what she wants? She's even offered a bribe in the form of some stockings! It's impossible to say just what this is about in any traditional sense, and it's a surprisingly pace-free affair for the most of it's rather abstract existence which appears to emanate from the naive and/or innocent mind of our unspoken narrator. Toys feature quite h...

    January 7, 2025

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