Proxima Competition 2023 / Maman déchire / France 2023
“Ever since my son was born, I have been having nightmares about my mother.” Without ceremony and with disarming sincerity, renowned French documentarist Émilie Brisavoine draws us into the universe of her somewhat distinctive family. After launching a charm offensive in Cannes eight years ago with a portrait of her half-sister and her family in Oh La La Pauline!, she now fixes her searching and troubled gaze on a fascinating and destructive element named Meaud: A punk mum who gave her daughter the gift of life and then kept running away from it. A spontaneous feminist and a beguiling grandma. A mesmeric, intimate odyssey into the very depths of the soul, and a powerful cinematic cry from a filmmaker seeking traces of withheld emotion.
Karel Och
80 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Émilie Brisavoine
/ Editor Karen Benaïnous
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Émilie Brisavoine (France). Selected filmography: Oh La La Pauline! (Pauline S’Arrache, 2015, doc.), Keeping Mum (Maman déchire, 2023).
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