MA MÈRE

A film by Christophe Honoré

France / Austria 2004 l 100 min l 35 mm l 1:1.66 l Dolby SRD l French (with English subtitles)

Director: Christophe Honoré
Script: Georges Bataille
Camera: Helene Louvart
Editing: Chantal Hymans
Sound: Jean Claude Brisson
Sound Editor: Frédéric Fichefet
Costumes: Pierre Canitrot
Post-Production Supervisor: Julien Diehn
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Richard Rousseau
Filming Locations: Las Palomas (Canary Islands)
Production Manager: Sylvain Monod
Producer: Paulo Branco
Co-Producers: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Production: Gemini Films (Paulo Branco), KGP & AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion (Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu), Les Films du Lendemain, Natan Productions (F), S2 Internacional Audiovisual Consulting (E)
Financial Support: ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Filmfonds Wien, Centre National de la Cinématographie, CANAL+

Cinema release Austria: 20th July 2007

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Pierre is a 17 year old living a pious adolescence with his grandmother. For his summer holidays he goes to join his parents in the Canary Islands, where he will be confronted with the conjugal escapades of a couple who are tearing each other apart and who hate each other. Following the sudden death of his father, Pierre is initiated into perversion by Hélène, his mother whom he venerates, and in whom he sees a pure woman who has lived with a repugnant man. Pierre is nevertheless aware that his mother's life is one of debauchery in alcohol and sex.

His mother takes him along with her on her outings, and introduces him to Réa, a seductive young woman who is also her mistress. The young woman plunges Pierre into orgy and debauchery. He discovers an ecstasy of perdition in which anguish, shame, sexual pleasure, disgust and respect are mingled.

His mother prefers to distance herself. During her absence, Pierre finds love and a certain degree of equilibrium with Hansi, a young woman who has been close to his mother. But Hélène is soon back, and having touched the bottom of the abyss, leads her son into the realisation of their incestuous fantasy, at the same time as she kills herself.

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