Review of Maman

I found this movie very deep and also a bit disturbing because Josiane Balasko plays such a hard cold mother to her 2 daughters. It is not always something we see on TV. I found it is therefore Controverting and courageous of the director of Alexandra Leclère to choose to make a film about such topic. Society still expects all women to be good mothers. But this movie shows that it isn't an intuitive quality. The director could have gone deeper in the why Josiane Balasko is as she is. But without the why, we still can see what consequences the lack of love can have on people.