Photo à droite Kerry Washington (SHE HATE ME etc...)
Cast
Annette Bening : Karen
Naomi Watts : Elizabeth
Kerry Washington : Lucy
Samuel L. Jackson : Paul, le directeur du cabinet d'avocats
Jimmy Smits : Paco, le collègue de Karen
Cherry Jones : sœur Joanne
Shareeka Epps : Ray, la jeune femme enceinte
LaTanya Richardson : Carol, la mère de Lucy
Elpidia Carrillo : Sofia, l'employée latina
Tatyana Ali : Maria, la fille de Paul
Brittany Robertson : Violet, la jeune aveugle
David Ramsey : le compagnon de Lucy
Amy Brenneman : le docteur Stone
Marc Blucas : Steven, le mari dans le couple voisin d'Elizabeth
Carla Gallo : Tracy, la femme dans le couple voisin d'Elizabeth
Eileen Ryan : Nora, la mère de Karen
David Morse : Tom, l'ancien petit ami de Karen
Simone Lopez : Cristi, la fille de Sofia
Ahmed Best : Julian
S. Epatha Merkerson : Ada
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La critique US des spectateurs ImDB
Pitch Perfect & Sensitively Directed
Author: Movie-Jay from Toronto, Canada
22 September 2009
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Caught this one at TIFF, and it was one of the best movies of the festival. Rodrigo Garcia directed "Nine Lives", which may be familiar to some audiences. That one was from 2005 and wove together a series of short vignettes. Garcia has a wonderful sensibility at portraying female characters in that one, and in "Mother & Child" he builds upon it even further as the movie centers around the theme of adoption and how it affects three adult women, played by Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, and Kerri Washington.
I suppose this will get the "chick flick" label upon it's release, but for any lover of good dramas with characters you can sink your teeth into, that shouldn't matter, and besides, when did it become unfashionable for grown men to see movies with attractive female stars in them? There isn't a false moment or a scene that doesn't ring true, and I found myself so involved in the particularities of all the characters we meet that it no longer mattered to me what happened next, it was more interesting to get inside the shoes and take a walk inside the lives of these characters, so well fleshed out by all the stars here.
So many big movies from America often feature adults behaving like children, and so it's ultimately refreshing and quite moving to follow the characters in "Mother & Child" who are going through very adult problems and acting like adults throughout, even if sometimes they fall or crack or are flawed.I think Bening and Watts, playing two very complicated and difficult women, should be nominated for Oscars. This movie takes material that could have been dumbed down and made into a TV movie of the week, but instead Rodrigo Garcia elevates the film by really listening to his characters.
A wonderful movie, not just for women, but for all adults who like good movies, and for all film-goers who especially like "hyperlink" movies, that is, movies that deal with a multitude of characters while letting each of them take the wheel of the car. Terrific.
