While waiting for ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ that is high on the mother-daughter love, here are 4 great flicks on mother daughter bond curated just for you
The misremembered past sneaks through the excellent The Truth like a devious shadow, subtly subverting every scene, creating a gently absurdist take on family dynamics. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, the follow up to his 2018’s award guzzling Shoplifters, is an elegantly humorous portrait of the days in the life of Fabienne Dangeville (Catherine Deneuve).
Kore-eda’s English Language debut follows Fabienne, an acclaimed, ageing actress with a cosmological divaness; about to release her memoirs, almost sardonically called the eponymous ‘
La Verité.’ Her screen-writer daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) arrives from New York with her American actor husband Hank (Ethan Hawke) and daughter Charlotte (Clémentine Grenier), for the launch of the book. Lumir had been expecting to read the book before it’s publication, only to find the finished text to be replete with a complete fictionalization of her childhood – as Fabienne presents herself as a doting mother when it is