The Mother
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Movie Reviews of The Mother
Movie Review: Amazing Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Any female in the western world over 50 will greatly relate to this woman - whether she has or has not acted on similar impulses. From just existing to becoming awakened and very much alive later in life is wonderfully and so very naturally portrayed on screen.So, ladies, if you have passed that magic half century this is a MUST SEE.
Movie Review: The Mother
Summary: 5 Stars
Extremely well acted. Hardly a chick flick! Subtle and intriguing. Anne Reid is excellent in the title role, but who would ever have thought that Daniel Craig would go on to play James Bond?!! Worth the money!Movie Review: excellent service
Summary: 5 Stars
got the dvd before the due date it was supposed to come in, so great job!!!Movie Review: Mom's Not Too Old nor Dead, and Not About to Pack It In
Summary: 4 Stars
With the death of her infirmed husband, May, an older woman faces a future in an urban world that views her as invisible, dead from the neck down, and unwelcome in the pseudo- sophisticated yuppie homes of her son, Bobby and his shallow wife, Helen, and Paula, a self- absorbed, clinging, and minimally talented daughter. The central family is anything but warm, supportive, and understanding of her new and tragic stage in life with the death of her husband. The Mother is a quiet character study that points up how in some societies, the elder parent is both unwelcome and a burden to grown children whose careers and status seeking overshadow all else.
As May comes to realize the world is still important to her, the lonely widow finds her libido reawakened and alive with her daughter's boyfriend, a carpenter and rough sort. May embarks on an uninhibited sexual affair with Darren whose character is sympathetic to her at first, but his flawed nature is quickly revealed through the pressures of the women who surround him.
This is the kind of role Hollywood actresses of a certain age whine is never written for them, but they would never appear because of the frank and overt sexuality, unglamorous wardrobe, little makeup, and social commentary on the vapidness of the society most film industry women are involved. The performance by the lead actress, Anne Reid ranges from quiet to giddy and her interpretation blossoms on screen from the drab widow to a sexually alive and freed middle age woman without face-lift, hair extensions, and liposuction. She bares more than her soul for the screen.
Daniel Craig is the enabling handyman, Derrek who beds both mother and daughter. He turns in another stellar performance that is at first sympathetic to the widow's situation, but in the end is without redemption as his true nature unfold and he is literally the rooster in a hen-house. His aimless character's inability to say no to the ex-wife, boring girlfriend, and her mother is blamed as the root of his ineffectual existence. While good with his hands at building a conservatory, he is unable to construct meaning in his life.
One of the best films from Britain in years, it is simply adult in its storyline. The Mother is the rare kind of film that is perhaps too honest for American audiences to tolerate having no car chase, no bling, no rap soundtrack to drown out the cretin performances by TV starlets and buff studmuffins. The Mother reflects how the aging baby boomers are now disposable people that offspring are willing to overlook, send to the retirement home, and get out of the way. May doesn't know what to do as she is made alive by Darren, isn't willing to go to the old folks home, and finds her kids are more conservative than she ever was at their age.
Movie Review: A Different Kind of Mother.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Mother is not a feel good family, and it's definitely not suitable for Mother's Day, because it's kind of depressing in many ways. It's about family relationship and one man's involvement between his girlfriend and the mother. The subject matter here is somewhat provokative and daring, but I am sure things like this do happen in real life.
May(Anne Reid) is a good well intended and hard working housewife. One day her husband died and she goes to stay with her daugher Paula(Cathryn Bradshaw) temporiarly. Paula is in a relationship with a married man named Darren(Daniel Craig) who works as a handyman. He's on the verge divorcing his wife, and he also has an autistic son to take care of. Paula has great expectation of him, and hoped to marry him eventually. She asked her mother to spend some time and talk to him to ensure that he's Mr. Right. Not only did her mother clicked with him during their lunch and walks on the beach, she was very attracted to him, and ended up going to bed with him. The secret affair went on for a while, and things got ugly when Darren wanted financial help and at the same time Paula found out about them.
Darren is not sincere to both women, and he's gone from wonderful and charming to angry and vicious. Daniel Craig is very impressive when he lashed out at Anne Reid later in the film. He's good at playing abusive man like he did in Sylvia(Gwyneth Paltrow).
Cathryn Bradshaw has her big moment when she hit her mother really hard on the face.
As for the leading lady, Anne Reid's performance is very subtle and restraint. She excelled at the most mundune moment to the sex scenes and fight scenes. For some reason, it's hard to feel sympathy towards her character. I do realized that she hadn't had sex for many years, and the affair totally revived her spirit, but in the end, she's betraying her own daughter for her pleasure.