Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on the new film “Mama Weed,” a French Film distributed by Music Box Films of Chicago. In select theaters including Music Box Theatre beginning July 16th, 2021, and through Video On Demand July 23rd.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Mama Weed features notable French actor Isabelle Huppert as the aptly named Patience, an Arabic translator for the French police. While interpreting a case, she happens upon a stolen cache of high quality hashish, and steals it herself to take care of her financial woes. This puts her in between her employers, and the cartel that’s very angry that lost their stash.
“Mama Weed” is in select theaters (see local listings) and through Video On Demand July 23rd. Featuring sabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Girardot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovére and Irs Bry. Screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Salomé and Hannelore Cayre. Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé. Not Rated.
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Rating: 4.0/5.0
Mama Weed features notable French actor Isabelle Huppert as the aptly named Patience, an Arabic translator for the French police. While interpreting a case, she happens upon a stolen cache of high quality hashish, and steals it herself to take care of her financial woes. This puts her in between her employers, and the cartel that’s very angry that lost their stash.
“Mama Weed” is in select theaters (see local listings) and through Video On Demand July 23rd. Featuring sabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Girardot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovére and Irs Bry. Screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Salomé and Hannelore Cayre. Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé. Not Rated.
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- 7/16/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With a body of work that rivals any performer’s across the history of film, French actress Isabelle Huppert can swan in and out of challenging material with nary a scratch to her matchless reputation. Often, her cool intensity and versatility is what makes that material work, most recently exemplified in her Oscar-nominated turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle.” But sometimes you get what amounts to a perfect fit of risk and skill, leading to sheer delight. That’s the case with the fleet French crime comedy “La Daronne,” translated with a winking nudge into colloquial English, and toward its particular narrative, as “Mama Weed.”
No, Huppert is not on the toking end in director Jean-Paul Salomé’s film (not that she couldn’t rock a pot comedy), but rather the dealing side. Huppert plays Patience Portefeux, a widow with money problems and a mother with dementia in an expensive assisted home,...
No, Huppert is not on the toking end in director Jean-Paul Salomé’s film (not that she couldn’t rock a pot comedy), but rather the dealing side. Huppert plays Patience Portefeux, a widow with money problems and a mother with dementia in an expensive assisted home,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
There’s something off about Mama Weed. On a more superfluous level, there’s the translation from La daronne—the original French title and the street name its protagonist comes to earn, itself an informal term for “mother”—to the title and nickname used in its United States release. Textually, problems emerge from the myriad supporting characters, virtually all of whom play like narrative props. The script seems uninterested in its conflict; the filmmaking lacks the style to glue its pieces together. That shines a light on, and strands, our title character.
She’s Patience (Isabelle Huppert), an Arabic-fluent French translator working for the police’s narcotics unit. At first, she’s humble: a woman proficient in her professional life but underpaid, a widow and mother to two daughters (Iris Bry and Rebecca Marder). She’s behind on her rent and hopes to afford her own mother (Liliane Rovère) better...
She’s Patience (Isabelle Huppert), an Arabic-fluent French translator working for the police’s narcotics unit. At first, she’s humble: a woman proficient in her professional life but underpaid, a widow and mother to two daughters (Iris Bry and Rebecca Marder). She’s behind on her rent and hopes to afford her own mother (Liliane Rovère) better...
- 7/14/2021
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Mama Weed (La daronne) Brainstorm Media/Music Box Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Jean-Paul Salomé Writer: Hannelore Cayre, Hannelore C;ayre, Jean-Paul Salomé, based on Hannelore Cayre’s novel “The Godmother” Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Giradot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovère, Iris Bry Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/10/21 Opens: […]
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- 7/11/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"What are you, small-timers?" Music Box Films has released an official US trailer for an indie drug dealer dark comedy called Mama Weed, originally known as La Daronne (or The Mum) in French. This already opened in France last year, and is finally getting a US release this summer. The German title for this is also Eine Frau mit berauschenden Talenten, which translates to A Woman with Intoxicating Talents - a much more enticing title, too. Ha! A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing. Her involvement in his business quickly escalates and she finds herself in possession of a huge store of hash and the insider knowledge required to move it. So she switches sides and gets the nickname "Mama Weed". Isabelle Huppert stars as Patience Portefeux, with a cast including Hippolyte Girardot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovère, Iris Bry, and Nadja Nguyen.
- 6/9/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
La Daronne
Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by Hannelore Cayre and starring the inimitable Isabelle Huppert. The crime comedy, produced by Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Kristina Larsen is scored by Bruno Calais (Oscar nominated for 2004’s The Chorus) and features a noted supporting cast, including Hippolyte Girardot, Liliane Rovere, Iris Bry (a recent Cesar nominee for The Guardians), Jade Nadja Nguyen, Youssef Sahraoui, Kamel Guenfoud and Farida Ouchani.…...
Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by Hannelore Cayre and starring the inimitable Isabelle Huppert. The crime comedy, produced by Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Kristina Larsen is scored by Bruno Calais (Oscar nominated for 2004’s The Chorus) and features a noted supporting cast, including Hippolyte Girardot, Liliane Rovere, Iris Bry (a recent Cesar nominee for The Guardians), Jade Nadja Nguyen, Youssef Sahraoui, Kamel Guenfoud and Farida Ouchani.…...
- 1/3/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
La Daronne
Director Jean-Paul Salomé nets Isabelle Huppert for his eighth feature, La daronne, which is based on a novel by popular crime writer Hannelore Cayre. Produced by Kristina Larsen from Les Films du Lendemain and Jean-Baptiste Dupont from La Boetie Films, the film will feature Dp Julien Hirsch (a mainstay of Andre Techine who also recently filmed Huppert in 2018’s Eva), composer Bruno Calais of 2011’s The Artist, and Marite Coutard as costume designer (of Bercot’s 2015 My King). Huppert will be joined by Hippolyte Girardot, Liliane Rovère, Farida Ouchani, Jade Nadja Nguyen, Youssef Sahraoui, Kamel Guenfoud and Iris Bry.…...
Director Jean-Paul Salomé nets Isabelle Huppert for his eighth feature, La daronne, which is based on a novel by popular crime writer Hannelore Cayre. Produced by Kristina Larsen from Les Films du Lendemain and Jean-Baptiste Dupont from La Boetie Films, the film will feature Dp Julien Hirsch (a mainstay of Andre Techine who also recently filmed Huppert in 2018’s Eva), composer Bruno Calais of 2011’s The Artist, and Marite Coutard as costume designer (of Bercot’s 2015 My King). Huppert will be joined by Hippolyte Girardot, Liliane Rovère, Farida Ouchani, Jade Nadja Nguyen, Youssef Sahraoui, Kamel Guenfoud and Iris Bry.…...
- 1/6/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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