Mother's Day

Mother's Day

27/8/1948 0h 22m 6.0/10

Overview

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

Director

James Broughton

Top Billed Cast

Hal Goldman

Elaine Mitchell

Marion Cunningham

Donald Nelson

Betty Lee Balder

Donald Pidgeon

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

1/7/2025

6/10

"Mother was the loveliest woman in the world". "Mother wanted everything to be lovely". Using a series of embryonic lighting techniques, a lively piano-based score and a series of not altogether coherent mini-sketches, we are presented with what appear to be memories of a couple, of them falling in love, of her widowhood and then more courting. She looks lovingly from her window, pining for what she had, what she wants? She's even offered a bribe in the form of some stockings! It's impossible to say just what this is about in any traditional sense, and it's a surprisingly pace-free affair for the most of it's rather abstract existence which appears to emanate from the naive and/or innocent mind of our unspoken narrator. Toys feature quite heavily as props and at times that's quite effective, as is some of the almost temperamental action from time to time, but it's all too surreal for me, sorry.

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