MOMMY

MOMMY
by Xavier Dolan

Cast : Antoine-Olivier Pillon as Steeve, Anne Dorval as Diane, and Suzanne Clement as Kyla.

Mommy is that kind of artistic work you can’t describe without removing the beauty and the complexity of the work.

The story takes place in 2015 in Montreal. Diane is the widow mother of Steeve. Steeve suffers from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, which in his case is probably due to his dad death. Diane got real trouble to raise Steeve, she receives helps from Kyla mysterious neighbor who literally lost her word. All three find a sort of therapy balance where they help unconsciously each others.  Steeve is divided between hate and love. He loves is mother in sometimes a disturbing way and he also has some excess of violence. Through his disease he is a poetic characters as Diane who is poetic through her mother status.

Xavier Dolan is kind of obsessed with the mother characters which is present in all his movies.

The film did a really good score in the box office, he also won the « prix du jury » of Cannes 2014.

 Nadja Fradkin