Mother's Day
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)
Cast
Marion Cunningham
as
Donald Pidgeon
as
Hal Goldman
as
Donald Nelson
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Betty Lee Balder
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Elaine Mitchell
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Marion Farquhar
as
Jack W. Stauffacher
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Bill Brewer
as
Louis Tyford
as
Reviews
CinemaSerf
"Mother was the loveliest woman in the world". "Mother wanted everything to be lovely". Using a series of embryonic lighting techniques, a lively piano-based score and a series of not altogether coherent mini-sketches, we are presented with what appear to be memories of a couple, of them falling in ...
