MA MERE (2004)

"POWERFUL, UNCOMPROMISING CINEMA"-BBC

Honoré’s scandalous, notorious second feature (“uncommercial in the extreme,” sniffed Variety) returns in a new, 20th anniversary restoration. Somewhere in the Canary Islands, promiscuous mother Hélène (the ever-impressive Isabelle Huppert), cool and in charge, and her pious Catholic teenaged son Pierre (Louis Garrel, fresh off The Dreamers), just back from boarding school, discuss his father’s infidelity. But when the family patriarch dies in a car crash, Hélène launches into a wild series of parties, gradually involving her son in her drugging, drinking and sex-fueled nights out.

directed by: Christophe Honoré
starring: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss
2004 / 110 min / 1.85:1 / French DTS-HD MA 5.1