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Mia Madre (15)

Mia Madre (15)

Drama

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.


The critical consensus

Among the excellent principals, top-billed Turturro enlivens things wonderfully, but the real star, Buy, is magnificent.

****(*)Angie Errigo, Empire Online, 21/09/2015

Absorbing melodrama from Nanni Moretti, featuring a scene-stealing John Turturro.

****(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 21/09/2015

Director Nanni Moretti has got his mojo back in this sad, funny and satisfying movie about a film director who carries on working while her mother is dying.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 24/09/2015

Moretti, who also co-stars as Margherita’s more together older brother, is good when he’s sending up the self-importance of the film industry, but as he lurches into sincere mode to show how life and art feed into each other, things get a little treacly.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 25/09/2015

Moretti is an old reliable, but he needs to be more than that.

***(*)(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 23/09/2015

A film-maker has to cope with her dying mother and a pompous American star in this tragicomic triumph by Nanni Moretti.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 27/09/2015

Moving and funny in its own understated way.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 28/09/2015

Where and when?

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee from Friday October 2, 2015, until Thursday October 8, 2015. More info: www.dca.org.uk

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday October 9, 2015, until Tuesday October 13, 2015. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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