Peterborough Arts Cinema: Mia Madre

At the heart of Mia Madre is a trio of women: Livia (Beatrice Mancini), a teenager who has dealt with heartache unnoticed by her mother; Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), a grandmother hospitalised by an illness which is inexorably undermining her physical and mental strength; and Margherita, a filmmaker overwhelmed by personal and professional pressures, brilliantly played by Margherita Buy in a performance worthy of Oscar nomination. It is upon Buy’s shoulders that much of the drama rests as she attempts to complete a Ken Loach-style political drama, “Noi siamo qui” (We Are Here), about the dignity of industrial action while coping with the decline of her mother and feared estrangement from her daughter. “this is Moretti at his interpersonal best; intimate, empathetic and intensely humane.”

https://youtu.be/jWiFif96t3Y

Director:
Nanni Moretti 

Starring:
Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini 

Rating:  15
Year:  2015
Country:  Italy
Length:   106mins

(Subtitles)