Mama Weed Movie Review
Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Giradot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovère, Iris Bry
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/10/21
Opens: July 16, 2021
In an end-year ranking, the New York Times declared Isabelle Huppert to be the second-best actor of the 21st Century, just behind Denzel Washington. The paper notes how she can switch from tears to smiles, from frightful to comic. “Mama Weed” could not have enjoyed a better performer for the role of a woman who is vulnerable to the extent that she is barely able to pay for the nursing home treating her mother, is behind on the rent, and is therefore in a financially weakened position that makes her consider crime. What’s more, once she gets the knack of stealing and then selling hashish, she becomes so confident as a pusher that her criminal buyers call her Mama Weed. (This may no
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Iris Bry, and
Nadja Nguyen. Adapted from the novel The Godmother by Hannelore Cayre, and nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay César Award, this is a clever French crime caper featuring an impeccably charming performance from the legendary Huppert. Looks like a good time.
Here s the official US trailer (+ French poster) for Jean-Paul Salomé s
Mama Weed, direct from YouTube:
A French-Arabic translator for the Paris police anti-narcotics unit, Patience Portefeux (Isabelle Huppert) interprets the daily calls and conversations between the city’s biggest drug dealers. In the evenings, she looks in on her aging mother at the long-term care facility where she is months behind in paying the bills. When she overhears the son of one of her mother’s nurses on the wiretap at work, Patience is moved to protect him. But her involvement in his business quickly escalates and she finds herself in possession of a huge store of hash and the insider knowledge required to move it. With
Call My Agent! (
Dix Per Cent) landed on Netflix. The show, which follows the workings of a talent agency in central Paris, is like an up-market
Extras in that each episode features a cameo from a celebrity guest or two. Thankfully, unlike
Extras, the show is altogether more optimistic, with much less Ricky Gervais and much more of the alluring grandeur of French cinema.
Anchoring the plot are the four shareholders in the agency: Andréa (Camille Cottin), Mathias (Thibault de Montalembert), Gabriel (Grégory Montel) and Arlette (Liliane Rovère). The conflict, loyalty and disloyalty between the four of them gives much needed continuity to the series, which, by being cameo-oriented, could easily feel disjointed. Their assistants, Camille, Noémie, and, especially Hervé, the fluttering giddy assistant played by Nicolas Maury, add pizzazz and absurdity.
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