I love Alexandra Lamy. She's funny and pretty. I watched many movie with her. I enjoyed it so much.
Back to Mom's
2016 [FRENCH]
Action / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
September 06, 2022 at 12:00 AM
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a french movie
A nice comedy roller coaster...
Retour chez ma mère is the exact portray of a jobless person returning to her mother's. The film was clear, clean and clever. The director handled each and every character with heart and passion. I believe these kind of films will definitely knock the box-office because of his own sense of humor. The mother's role was very strong and she has done it very cleverly. I appreciate also the editor and cameraman of the film because you fall into the film without knowing. And that's the best of a film.
It's very rare to see a film like this...
9/10 with heart!!!!!
Is there life outside of Paris?
Wow, for once a French movie that takes place outside of Paris, even way outside (in Aix-en-Provence), and treats this place just as if it was a normal place, and not just a zoo where real people from Paris go for a visit.
The protagonist, Stéphanie, is of course nothing less than a successful architect, and has "studied for 10 years", but now she's not only out of a job but for some reason also so destitute that she has to move back in with her mother and borrow money from her siblings. The movie changes its tack several times, usually exploiting a comedic situation until it runs dry. At first, the film cashes in on the situation of a grown woman (who is a mother herself) being treated like a child once again. There is a great scene with a overly jolly counselor at a job centre. Next, a comedy of errors where the mother (the utterly likable Josiane Balasko) tries to hide her lover from her daughter, which causes the family to suspect that she is becoming senile. At the end, after pulling a quick McGuffin, Stéphanie can move into a beautiful home and the family reunites around maman and her grey-haired gigolo. Roll credits.
Overall and enjoyable and light film with a forced ending which could have done with a better script.