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'Mia madre' is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot



Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a director working on a social-realist film about a factory strike called 'Noi siamo qui' ('We Are Here'), starring American actor Barry Huggins (John Turturro) as the factory owner. Huggins consistently fails to deliver his lines properly and the fraught nature of the shoot is exacerbated by unhelpful advice from Margherita to her actors. She breaks up with her boyfriend, an actor in the film, and is divorced from the father of her daughter, Livia (Beatrice Mancini). Her brother Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) has taken time off work to help care for their ailing mother, Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), a retired classics teacher who has been hospitalised. Margherita comes to feel guilty for not taking on more responsibility for her mother and reflects on her often cold relations with her family, friends and colleagues.

Cast



* Margherita Buy as Margherita

* John Turturro as Barry Huggins

* Giulia Lazzarini as Ada

* Nanni Moretti as Giovanni

* Beatrice Mancini as Livia

* Stefano Abbati as Federico

* Enrico Ianniello as Vittorio

* Anna Bellato as Actor

* Toni Laudadio as Producer

Reception



'Mia Madre' has an 84% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 70/100 on review aggregator Metacritic. Les Cahiers du cinma placed the film 1st in their 2015 Top Ten chart and featured Nanni Moretti on their November's cover. High on Films Website wrote "Life, death, film-making, solitude, relationships & existential crisis form the crux of Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre".[https://www.highonfilms.com/mia-madre-2015-jio-mami-review/ Mia Madre (2015) - "Mumbai Film Festival Review"]. 'highonfilms.com'.

Awards and nominations



References




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