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Mothers & Daughters (2008 film)

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'Mothers and Daughters' is a 2008 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/mothers-daughters/article1344279/ "Overwrought relationships, underwritten with love"]. 'The Globe and Mail', May 28, 2009.

The film, an exploration of mother-daughter relationships, centres on a group of women in Vancouver. Micki (Babz Chula) is a romance novelist who has tried to relate to her daughter Rebecca (Camille Sullivan) as a friend and peer rather than as a mother; Brenda (Gabrielle Rose) is a woman whose relationship with her daughter Kate (Tiffany Lyndall-Knight) is tested when her husband leaves her for another woman; Celine (Tantoo Cardinal) is a single house painter with no children, who has the opportunity to indulge her maternal instincts when her young client Cynthia (Tinsel Korey) needs assistance with her pregnancy.[https://exclaim.ca/film/article/mothers_daughters-directed_by_carl_bessai "Mothers & Daughters: Carl Bessai"]. 'Exclaim!', May 29, 2009. The characters and dialogue were developed by the actresses through an improvisational process.[https://www.straight.com/article-219104/mothers-amp-daughters-gabrielle-rose-finds-her-reality "Mothers&Daughters' Gabrielle Rose finds her reality"]. 'The Georgia Straight', May 6, 2009.

At the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival, the film won the audience award for Most Popular Canadian Film."Fifty Dead Men Walking was dead-on according to VIFF jury; I've Loved You So Long voted most popular film". 'The Province', October 12, 2008. Rose received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 30th Genie Awards.[http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/arts/story/1.878967 "Polytechnique tops Genie nominations"]. CBC News, March 1, 2010.

Bessai went on to make two more films, 'Fathers & Sons' (2010) and 'Sisters & Brothers' (2011), that used a similar process and structure to explore family dynamics.

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