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The trailer for Ma Mere

• My kind of film - rated NC-17 for "strong and aberrant sexual content," yet also pretentious and self-consciously arty. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Tarkovsky meets Ron Jeremy.
• "'Ma Mere' takes place in the Canary Islands, where the film's family shares a home. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) and her teenaged son Pierre (Louis Garrel), a pious Catholic back from boarding school, discuss his father's infidelity; the next they hear, he is dead in a car crash. Mom launches into a wild series of parties, gradually involving her son in her drugging, drinking and sex-fuelled nights out.

  When she mysteriously goes away, her son is left in the care of her mistress and an icy blonde sadist with whom he falls in love. As the film evolves, we realize that this is a period of initiation for the young man until his mother can return and fully bring him to sexual maturity and adulthood.