(M) Ma Mere (2005, Christophe Honore)
Grade: D

This movie is based on a book by Georges Bataille who wrote after WWII and questioned societies sexual repression. The director of this film wanted to test Bataille's theories and see if they were still relevent today, 40 years after the "sexual revolution". What his personal opinion is, I don't know, maybe it's expressed in this movie somewhere.

When I finished watching this movie I was just thinking, what the hell? I don't get it. So I had to watch the bonus material interviews to get an understanding of this movie. Basically a son whom has been living with his grandparents comes home to his parents. Right away his father dies and his mother tells her son not to hate his father for the affair the father has been having because she's really to despise. The mother refers to herself as a slut and a whore who is unfaithful. The mother then takes her (what I'm assuming is innocent son) and sets him down a path that she guides to explore his life and experience sexuality in life. The son eventually meets a woman who then alters the mothers path and shows him what love can be. Eventually the mother loses her desire for sex and resigns herself to death because all she has ever gotten pleasure from in life is sexual fulfillment. The son in the end has a choice to make, whether to follow his mother's path and see his future in the unfulfilling life that sexual gratification as a main pursuit leads to, or to love the girl he's met and venture down a different path.