''Maman'' is a 2012 French drama directed by
Alexandra Leclère
Alexandra Leclère is a French film director. She is also a screenwriter and dialogue (fiction), dialogue writer. Her short film, ''Bouche à bouche'', won two jury prizes, at the Cinéma au Parfum de Grasse Festival in 2003 and at the Internationa ...
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Plot
Alice and Sandrine are sisters. One is married to Serge, realtor, and offers piano lessons to occupy his time. The second has two sons, Thomas and Nicolas, works in an advertising agency and occasionally sleeping with the director, Erwan. These two women with established routine will suddenly be confronted with a violent imponderable: their mother arrived from Lyon, with the intention of moving to Paris after a stormy divorce. This same mother who had leaked 20 years ago, this mother not love that had never occupied them and had never tried to contact them. The reunion, tumultuous, pushing Alice and Sandrine to strike a blow: they are absorbed sleeping pills to their mother they kidnap and sequester the house of Erwan, Brittany. With a very clear objective: to settle their accounts, and require that mother unworthy and odious to love them.
Cast
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Josiane Balasko
Josiane Balasko (born Josiane Balašković; 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice.
Career
One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is ...
as Paulette
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Mathilde Seigner
Mathilde Seigner (born 17 January 1968) is a French actress.
Early life
Seigner was born in Paris. She is the granddaughter of actor Louis Seigner (1903–1991). She is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner and a niece of Françoise Seigner.
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as Sandrine
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Marina Foïs
Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress.
Life and career
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in a family from Russian people, Russian, Egyptian Jews, Jewish Egyptian, German people, German a ...
as Alice
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Michel Vuillermoz as Erwan de Kerdoec
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Serge Hazanavicius as Serge
* Thomas Gérard as Thomas
* Mathieu Rousseau as Nicolas
* Kojiro Okada as pianist
References
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2012 films
2012 drama films
French drama films
2010s French-language films
Les Films du Worso films
2010s French films
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