While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer.
Direction
Soukaz's unflinching eye—no comfort, no answers, just raw present-tense suffering.
Acting
Didier Hercend's hollow-eyed desperation that never asks for sympathy.

Director
Lionel Soukaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the height of the AIDS crisis, this queer French underground film captures a specific pre-catastrophe moment of sexual freedom shadowed by unspoken doom.
The title plays on 'maman que j'aime' (mom I love) and 'maman, qu'est-ce que...'—the entire film is a fractured sentence Laurent can't finish.
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