My Mother Likes Women(A mi madre le gustan las mujeres)

Name: My Mother Likes Women
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Spain · 2002
1h 33m
Director Daniela Féjerman, Inés París
Starring Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardà, María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal
Genre Drama, Comedy

"Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the neurotic Elvira to the point of nervous breakdown. Sol, the youngest daughter, writes a lude rock song about it and performs in front of them at a concert. The daughters plot together on how to get their mothers new girlfriend, a native Czech, and brilliant pianist, out of her life. Their plot goes terribly wrong and turns the film from a light-hearted comedy, into mildly amusing drama."

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Village Voice by

Fortunately, Leonor Watling (who spent most of "Talk to Her" in a coma) plays the spectacularly neurotic middle daughter with dizzying abandon and single-handedly saves the day.

Miami Herald by Connie Ogle

Wins you over with this bright sense of humor and its gentle, welcome message of tolerance and acceptance.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

For a movie with a lesbian theme, My Mother Likes Women is absurdly coy about gay sex. It may be the most heterosexually minded film about lesbians ever made.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

The Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling.

Variety by Jonathan Holland

Lightness of touch, vibrant performances and a sharp script are the hallmarks of this delightful femme comedy.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

The attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

In fact it ends, as all good romantic comedies do, with a wedding, though the identities of the newly married couple might be the least predictable thing about this cheerfully ham-fisted celebration of love and family in modern-day Madrid.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen

Wants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

As My Mother Likes Women gallops along, it picks up speed and takes its characters on a whirlwind tour of Prague before rushing back home. As it accelerates, its texture thins and its story turns strained and eager to please. But it never loses its cheeky sense of humor about love and the havoc it can wreak.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

PAGING Pedro Almodovar! We have a movie badly in need of your help.