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The Whore's Son(Hurensohn)

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Austria, Luxembourg · 2004
1h 26m
Director Michael Sturminger
Starring Chulpan Khamatova, Stanislav Lisnic, Miki Manojlović, Maria Hofstätter
Genre Drama

Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.

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Los Angeles Times by

The misfortune, of Michael Stürminger's low-boil melodrama is that it's entirely too familiar. Underneath the movie's cool surface beats the heart of a 1940s tear-jerker. It's a subzero "Stella Dallas."

50

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Austrian director Michael Sturminger's debut feature creates a visually evocative environment in which to explore some significant themes, from religious repression to Freudian guilt.

50

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

In the end, Sturminger's virginal insistence on draining the mother-son relationship of all eros also drains it of interest.

70

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

Adapted from a novel by Gabriel Loidolt, this is most interesting for its textured family history and pained religiosity.

50

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Works better as a look at life among a family of Croatian immigrants in Vienna during the nightmare years of the Balkan conflicts than an exploration of the psychosexual tension between a prostitute and her son.

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