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MOMMY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roadside Attractions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade:\u00a0 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0 Xavier Dolan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenwriter:\u00a0 Xavier Dolan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0 Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clement, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screened at:\u00a0 Review 1, NYC, 10\/22\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opens:\u00a0 January 23, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

How surprising that Xavier Dolan is not better known here in the States!\u00a0 Born in Montreal in 1989, he directed and acted in his first feature, the semi-autobiographical \u201cI Killed My Mother\u201d (about the contempt that a boy has for his mother in no small part for the bread crumbs that appeared regularly on her lips) when he was only twenty years old.\u00a0 Now at the age of twenty-five with five films under his belt, his latest, \u201cMommy,\u201d is a ferociously acted melodrama with ample spots of humor, one which calls to mind the traditional fashion of psychoanalysis.\u00a0 While Freudian therapists typically ask about patients\u2019 feelings about their mothers, ascribing many current neuroses to flawed upbringing, they often fail to realize that mothers can also be burdened by a handful.\u00a0 Who knows how many have had to deal with characters like the sixteen-year-old who may be labeled ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), but that label only begins to show how such a flaw can take over one\u2019s life and destroy a household.<\/p>\n

Whenever Steve Despr\u00e9s (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) would act up, whether in boarding school or at home, you might be tempted to blame his upbringing, a chip off the old block if such an expression could be used for children and their mothers.\u00a0 After all Diane \u201cDie\u201d Despr\u00e9s (Anne Dorval), now living in a small town near Qu\u00e9bec City, is no blushing schoolmarm but rather a trash-talking, lower-working class, gum-chewing individual currently without a job, who has no problem choosing the range of obscenities when talking to her son.\u00a0 And the young man has no problem in calling his mother a bitch, a whore, and then some.\u00a0 This, however, does not explain the boy\u2019s action in burning down the school cafeteria, resulting in serious injuries to at least one of his peers, causing his expulsion from the school and a $250,000 lawsuit by the mother of the injured lad.<\/p>\n

Writer-director Dolan uses a minor sci-fi convention by situating the action in 2015 when a new Qu\u00e9bec law, S-14, allows parents to commit their underage children to hospitals without going through the court system if the parents find their charges unmanageable.\u00a0 Thinking she can change Steve, Diane employs the help of her next-door neighbor Kyla (Suzanne Cl\u00e9ment), a high-school teacher on sabbatical whose speech defect is so severe that she often cannot barely begin a sentence.\u00a0 Yet because of Kyla\u2019s friendship with and acceptance by Diane, the teacher is able to help Diane home-school the boy, all in the service of keeping him out of a hospital for people with emotional problems.<\/p>\n

Yet the focus of what amounts to a three-some remains on Diane, who makes up stories for the benefit of both Kyle and Steve, speaking of her departed husband who was an \u201cinvestment adviser,\u201d and talking of a previous address in Qu\u00e9bec City and of her previous job as a French-English translator.\u00a0 Diane is not exactly in denial.\u00a0 She is aware of the seriousness of her boy\u2019s condition, but she responds to his affection for her (in one scene he kisses his mother on the lips) and has a skin so thick then when Steve calls her a bitch and whore, she acts as though he said merely, \u201cI do not approve of what you are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Antoine-Olivier Pilon performs as though almost a clone of his mother.\u00a0 He is a handsome fellow, one who thinks of himself as \u201ca good lad,\u201d a young man with blue eyes and a mop of blond hair.\u00a0 He is self-destructive enough that when Paul (Patrick Huard), a lawyer neighbor agrees to take on the lawsuit pro bono, he has a change of heart when Steve curses him out, accusing him of simply trying \u201cto get into my mother\u2019s panties.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there is never a dull moment however long this film is\u2014and it is an overlong 2 hours and 20 minutes\u2019 sit\u2014attribute that to the sparks that fly when son and mother are together in a room.\u00a0 Individually, each can shatter glass when speaking their mind. Together, the glass not only shatters but the room itself bursts into flames.\u00a0 This may not be the kind of film to take your parents to on Mother\u2019s Day, but it cannot be faulted for its unpredictability, its originality down to the use of a 1:1 aspects ration (vs the usual 2.35:1), and its acting talent.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 139 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting \u2013 A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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