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Mother's Day

6.1(15)194822m1

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)

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  • coming of age
  • short film

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSan Francisco Museum of Art27 Aug 1948

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Mother's Day was released on 27 August 1948.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/7/2025

    6/10

    "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 love, of her widowhood and then more courting. She looks lovingly from her window, pining for what she had, what she wan…

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