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I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
Director: Claude Miller & Nathan Miller
Actors: Vincent Rottiers / Sophie Cattani / Christine Citti
CÉSAR NOMINATION! Best Breakthrough Performance, Actor (Vincent Rottiers)
Based on an extraordinary real-life incident discovered by
producer Jacques Audiard, I'M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE
was widely heralded as the best French film at the recent
Venice Film Festival. This is the gripping and emotionally powerful story
of an adopted boy who tracks down his birth mother with dramatic and
unexpected results.
Thomas is four years old when his teenage-mother gives him up, along
with his infant half-brother, and the pair are adopted by a couple who
wish to leave the boys' past well behind them. However, while his brother
grows up with no desire to delve into his past, Thomas cannot let
go. Unbeknownst to his adoptive parents, he tracks her down, firstly
as an angry adolescent taken aback by what he finds – and later as a
young adult. In the hands of master filmmaker Claude Miller ("Un Secret
", "The Accompanist") working for the first time with son Nathan
and Audiard, the scope of this meticulously realised film goes far beyond
the immediate implications of this specific story. Viewers are invited to
make their own judgements by this very thought-provoking film.
MA15+
90 mins / 2009
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Opening Night Film
Micmacs
Closing Night Film
Gainsbourg : Je t'aime...moi non plus
Blood is thicker than water
Bellamy
Blame It On Mum
Father Of My Children
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive
LOL
Making Plans For Lena
Ricky
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Tomorrow At Dawn
First feature film
Anything For Her
First Snow
In Your Arms
Legal Aid
One For The Road
Queen To Play
The Hedgehog
You'll Miss Me
Comedy
Change Of Plans
Fashion Victim
Incognito
Little Nicolas
Lucky Luke
Neuilly Yo Mama!
OSS 117, Lost In Rio
Please, Please Me!
Love at first sight
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Every Jack Has A Jill
Leaving
Mademoiselle Chambon
Regrets
Someone I Loved
Wild Grass
Resistance
In The Beginning
Korkoro
No Pasaran
Skirt Day
The Army Of Crime
Welcome
Kids
The True Story Of Puss'n Boots
Trouble At Timpeltill
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