THE MOTHER
US Premiere
Country: France, Romania, Spain
Language: Romanian, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Original Title: LA MADRE
Running Time: 89min
Film Year: 2016
Category: HBO Ibero American Competition
Miguel (Javier Mendo) is only 14, but has already taken on countless responsibilities. His mother, Carmen, is unemployed and emotionally unstable, so Miguel does the housework, sells what he can and shoplifts when he has to. When social services comes calling, Miguel, preferring freedom at all costs to state assistance, flees. He winds up staying with Carmen’s ex and befriends the proprietor of a bar. Meanwhile, Carmen has disappeared.
Anchored in a heartrending, brave, seemingly artless performance from Mendo, this third fiction feature from Spain’s Alberto Morais is an arresting drama about youth in peril and the vagaries of a family in which traditional roles have become unnervingly blurred.
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Thursday March 9th @ 9:45pm MDC’S TOWER THEATER (THEATER 1) Add to Schedule
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credits
Director: Alberto Morais
Producer: Alberto Morais, Adrian Lustig, Paulo Branco
Screenwriter: Alberto Morais, Ignácio Gutiérrez-Solana, Verónica García
Executive Producer: Verónica García, Adrian Lustig
Music: Vicent Barrère
Cinematographer: Diego Dussuel
Editor: Julia Juániz