Enter Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Madre” into the canon of warped movies about motherhood. Marta Nieto turns in a great performance in this intimate yet epically shot drama about how a mother’s ...

It’s a dizzying feat that “Madre,” directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen ... Without further exposition, the movie moves ahead ten years. Elena now lives in the French beach town where Iván ...

which can only be described as a political-corruption movie at breakneck speed, Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen returns to calmer and deeper if still equally troubled waters with Madre.

Love, death, cinema — they’re all there in “Mia Madre,” bumping up against one another beautifully. It’s the story of a movie director, Margherita (Margherita Buy), who, while shooting a ...

While a few satirical movie-biz moments click, Mia Madre is most poignant when it finds a tone much like Moretti's 2001 La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room). Both movies are gently bewildered ...

How about John Turturro playing a pompous ass of an actor while speaking Italian? The terrific "Mia Madre" has all that, and more. If you have ever lost a parent or close relative to a lingering ...

“Mia Madre,” about an overtaxed film director trying to cope with the terminal illness of her mother, is an odd movie: It has plenty of emotionally satisfying scenes and its share of humorous ...

Chicago-based Music Box has now struck a new deal for the film with Paris-based sales company Films Distribution and plans to release the movie in this year’s third quarter. Mia Madre concerns a ...

But as considerable as her gifts may be, Buy is ultimately unable to hold “Mia Madre” together. As a movie, it’s not nearly as bad as the one Barry Huggins is starring in, but “Mia Madre ...