Ma mère

Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall

So clinically detached it borders on absurd.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Based on a novel by French provocateur Georges Bataille, an important thinker whose fiction rarely translates into good cinema.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

For all its shocking content, it remains a rather conventional psychological portrait of Oedipal attraction taken to a disturbing extreme.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Degrading, disgusting and depressing.

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

Honoré never gets beneath these characters' sunburned skins, and well before the end, the film tips irretrievably over into the realm of absurdity.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Ma Mère may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Huppert is wonderful, as usual, and she's to be congratulated for taking this daring role. But, alas, even she can't save Ma Mere.