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What My Mother Told Me

What My Mother Told Me

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  • United Kingdom,
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • 1995

Director Frances-Anne Solomon
Cast Adjoa Andoh, Leonie Forbes, Clarence Smith, Nadine Williams
Genre Drama

Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, What My Mother Told Me is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young woman from England, who goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past.

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