Ma Mere

2004, 148 minutes, Rated R

When 17 year-old Pierre (Louis Garrel - The Dreamers) heads off to spend the summer holidays with his parents on the Canary Islands, a series of dramatic events throws his world into chaos and leaves his life changed forever.

With the tragic death of his father Pierre is left alone for the first time with his mother Helene (Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher) who, along with her gang of femme fatales, draws her son into a dangerous world of sexual transgression, illicit desire and taboo-breaking libertinism.

As one of the great new directors of our time, Honore handles this gripping, controversial, confronting film with a passion and precision of execution that is second to none. MA MERE crashes through the boundaries of social acceptability and creates its own world on the other side.