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
Evie here, bovine star of the New York Film Critics Circle award-winning Best Picture,
First Cow. I have briefly taken over Odie’s post as per our agreement, which said if he liked my movie, I could join the Movie Club and berate him. There’s just one small problem: Odie didn’t like
First Cow. Granted, he found it “remotely interesting” and thought the scenes with me and John Magaro’s Cookie were “kinda sweet.” But after hearing him mutter something about “half-assed zeppoles” and “replacing the batteries in this movie,” I realized he was right to avoid the latest film by a director who just doesn’t do it for him. So how did I manage to still get this gig? Well, I know how to sweet talk a Taurus. After all,