The French legend’s star power threads together tones of wit, danger and political substance
Robert Abele | July 14, 2021 @ 4:00 PM
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With a body of work that rivals any performer’s across the history of film, French actress Isabelle Huppert can swan in and out of challenging material with nary a scratch to her matchless reputation. Often, her cool intensity and versatility is what makes that material work, most recently exemplified in her Oscar-nominated turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle.” But sometimes you get what amounts to a perfect fit of risk and skill, leading to sheer delight. That’s the case with the fleet French crime comedy “La Daronne,” translated with a winking nudge into colloquial English, and toward its particular narrative, as “Mama Weed.”
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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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Synopsis
Dans le cadre d un voyage organisé par l agence Dream Tour, un groupe de touristes français découvre l Ouest des Etats-Unis en autobus. Il y a là Aimé, accompagné d une amie lesbienne, Elvira ; le grippe-sou Jean-Michel et sa nouvelle femme, Nicole, en voyage de noces ; Lyliane et Raymond, deux retraités, communistes de la première heure ; Suzy et Jeff, deux jeunes chômeurs qui voient en l Amérique la fin de leurs galères ; Gwenaël, qui ne quitte pas des yeux la boîte contenant les cendres de sa défunte mère, et Claire, jeune journaliste stagiaire, chargée de réaliser un reportage incognito. Hélas, Dream Tour vient de faire faillite et le guide, Mathias, doit puiser dans les ultimes réserves financières pour que le voyage ne tourne pas à la catastrophe.