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Reviewed by Tomaslillebror 7 / 10

A story about a mothers love

This is a story about a mothers love for her youngest son who was born a cripple and the reciprocal love and apreciation from son to mother.The movie has a slow pace yet with lots of things happening, which is natural since the movie ranges about half a century.Acting is generally good and at times excellent.Music and sound is great and hardly noticebable yet effective.Its also worth mentioning that the story is about a jewish family that does not always act charming, like blackmailing everyone and basically sidestepping merit through corruption. Yet, the story about a mothers love is beautiful and the main story. Bring a napkin.7/10.

Reviewed by panta-4 8 / 10

A Tender Ode to Music, Maternal Love, and the Eternal Sylvie Vartan

Ken Scott's Once Upon My Mother (Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan) is not merely a film-it is a shimmering, sepia-toned memory album set to the most divine of soundtracks. Adapted from Roland Perez's 2021 autobiographical novel, the film follows a Sephardic boy growing up in 1960s France with a clubfoot and a mother who refuses to let the world shrink his horizons. But the emotional spine of the story is neither disability nor destiny-it is the voice of Sylvie Vartan, that velvety, heart-skipping contralto that drifts through every corridor of the child's imagination like a guardian angel in go-go boots. For anyone who, like me, discovered her 45s at the age of eight in 1969, the film feels like stumbling upon a beloved secret garden you thought had been paved over by time. Hearing her 2025 re-recording of "Nicolas"-a lullaby reborn-was enough to send me back to my parents' living-room rug, transistor radio in hand, marveling once again at the gorgeous woman with the divine voice who made the world feel wider than the sky.Leïla Bekhti's turn as Esther, the indefatigable mother, is a small miracle of warmth and ferocity; she negotiates every scene as if it were a tango between worry and wonder. Jonathan Cohen, playing the adult Roland, lets the camera linger on the trembling edge of gratitude-his eyes seem to applaud his mother posthumously. Yet the film's true cameo is Vartan herself, stepping briefly into frame with the unforced radiance of a secular saint. Ken Scott, directing in French for the first time, keeps his palette soft-butter-yellow kitchens, mint-green Dansettes, the chalky blue of a hospital cast-so that every burst of song feels like sunlight on still water. The director has confessed he read Perez's book while quarantining with COVID; you can sense the fever-dream clarity with which he renders the period detail, from the crackle of a jukebox single to the scratch of a schooldesk lid. Amazon Prime Video's inaugural French-language feature is thus a love letter not only to motherhood but to analog childhood itself, when a three-minute pop song could reroute the course of an entire afternoon.By the final reel, the film has achieved the rare feat of making the audience homesick for a country that exists only in the heart. I left the cinema humming "Irrésistiblement," my cheeks salt-stiff, convinced that Sylvie's voice-still honeyed, still mischievous-had once again stitched decades together with a single sustained note. Once Upon My Mother reminds us that pop music, at its best, is a form of secular grace, and that maternal love, like a great yé-yé chorus, can transpose any affliction into a major key. Merci, Monsieur Scott, for returning Sylvie to the screen and to our collective bloodstream. The little eight-year-old twirling in front of my newly bought record player has never been more alive.

Reviewed by massimo_saidel 7 / 10

"This woman will never leave you" (quote in film)

This unlikely (for subjectmatter) new french success from revitalized (see recent "How to make a killing": separate Imdb review) grand producer Gaumont, proves wrong prejudices against both minority-spoofs and international coproduction-puddings, involving in this case France, Canada, even Amazon.It takes Montréal based helmer Ken Scott, scripter of québecois hits "La grande séduction" (2003) and "Starbuck" (2011+multiple remakes) to pull off this warm and exuberant comedy set amongst jewish Moroccan immigrants to Paris in the 70's: the main character of the Mother is played by marvellous Leila Bekhti, the ecclectic thespian of algerian origins married to top actor Tahar Rahim (the "Prophet" by Jacques Audiard; little seen gem "Astragal" with Bekhti).The son, standup comedian Jonathan Cohen, is very well directed like the rest of a plentyful cast including 6 young brothers and sisters, moving newcomer Lionel Dray as the modest father, Anne Le Ny the 'curandera', Jeanne Balibar as the feared social worker threatening the family, and a glam cameo by Sylvie Vartan herself, the diva of french rock ("yé yé") in the title, whose songs play a defining role in the life of young Roland, from age 2 to 42...big time lawyer Roland Perez (real story) was born with a clubfoot, speaks little, learns to read and write at home from Vartan's songs on tv and eventually rallies school "on his own two feet", thanks to his mother's ferocious resolve, imagination and talent for achieving "miracles", in this life: anyone with a chinese tiger or jewish mother (not just Woody Allen or Romain Gary), knows the struggles and exagerations shown on screen, which stretch the film a little, are plausibile or at least possible, and that keeps the movie endearing for viewers.I saw it in France with my former boss born in Algeria, that really wanted to catch it but was kind of embarrassed to ask his grown up children or feared a snub from high minded friends...that took me back 45 years to austere Geneva, where we skipped classes with my best friend Gad to go see the forefather of french jewish comedies (Alexandre Arcady's "Le coup de sirocco" set in Algeria): we sat upstairs in a dark corner of the gallery, sure to be alone in the cinéma, until the first gag went down, and below burst dozens of guilty, grateful and loud laughs from a happy audience, just like last week in Paris.

Once Upon My Mother

2025 [FRENCH]

Drama

Once Upon My Mother

2025 [FRENCH]

Drama

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A story about a mothers love

A Tender Ode to Music, Maternal Love, and the Eternal Sylvie Vartan

"This woman will never leave you" (quote in film)

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