Mia Madre

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor, Barry Huggins, who is quite a character on set. Away from the set, Margherita tries to hold her life together while feeling powerless when facing her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.

Keywords

  • Cannes: En compétition
  • David di Donatello
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Film Fest Gent (home)
  • Focus: Nanni Moretti
  • Italian Cinema
  • Italian success
  • Joachim Lafosse’s favourite films
  • parenthood

Actors

  • Toni Laudadio
  • Enrico Ianniello
  • Anna Bellato
  • Beatrice Mancini
  • Pietro Ragusa
  • John Turturro
  • Giulia Lazzarini
  • Tatiana Lepore
  • Vanessa Scalera
  • Margherita Buy
  • Stefano Abbati
  • Lorenzo Gioielli
  • Nanni Moretti
  • Monica Samassa

Director

  • Nanni Moretti

Drama


1h 46min


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Italy
2015
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.


Margherita is a director shooting a film with the famous American actor, Barry Huggins, who is quite a character on set. Away from the set, Margherita tries to hold her life together while feeling powerless when facing her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.

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