Based on a true story, co-writer/director Claude Miller ("A Secret") gets points for using a bit of narrative sketchiness to good effect.
I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive(Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante)
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France · 2009
1h 30m
Director Nathan Miller
Starring Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven, Maxime Renard
Genre Drama
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Thomas is a frustrated teenage boy living with his adopted parents, and is obsessed with his birth mother. He finally goes to search for her, attempting to understand why she would have abandoned him, and finds that she is living alone, and had a third son with another man who she hasn’t given up.
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An understated--and at times, clinical to a fault--Oedipal drama of long-simmering resentment and familial love's ambiguities, I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive risks bringing chilly subjectivity to sensational raw material.
The first half of I'm Glad My Mother's Alive effectively inhabits a child's mind in a manner that recalls Maurice Pialat's marvelous 1968 debut "The Naked Childhood."
Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
Despite the clumsy script and a shaky acting partner, Cattani, at least, is fascinating to watch, never demanding audience sympathy.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive is anything but the clichéd fantasy of a blissful mother-child reunion. Although there are hints of joy once they reconnect, the wounds are too deep, and the characters too complex.
The narrative easily goes back and forth in time; despite its Oedipal subtext, it avoids exploitation. Stellar performances by Rottiers and Cattani help keep the movie on track.
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