Mia Madre's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
In so many ways this is a picture about the clash between your personal and professional life, about having to show up on set and do your job when your heart is breaking.
Empire
Among the excellent principals, top-billed Turturro enlivens things wonderfully, but the real star, Buy, is magnificent.
Variety
Comparisons will inevitably be made with Moretti?s ?The Son?s Room,? a more heart-wrenching, focused work that dealt with the incomprehensible tragedy of a child?s death; in his latest, the director touches instead on the more imaginable loss of a mother, thereby homing in on an especially sensitive chord in Italy, where Mamma is all.
El Mundo
"It could have been a melodrama but Moretti can turn this movie into a fable where laughter and desolation can be as warm as irresistible"
Cinemanía
"(...) Moretti's delicateness is not about the aesthetic of the film but it relays on the way he shows the angst of the human loss, in a humorous and dreamy way"
El País
" 'Mia Madre' is described in a realistic way but without charm, with superficial sentimentality"
The Telegraph
Turturro deserves four stars ? but the rest of Moretti?s saggy melodrama is scarcely half as good.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote