Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.
Acting
Nathalie Baye's maternal possessiveness will haunt you.
Direction
Fougeron turns breakfast into psychological warfare.
Director
Martial Fougeron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2006 French thriller predates the 'mommy blogger' era but eerily predicts our cultural obsession with performative maternal martyrdom.
Nathalie Baye reportedly based her performance on interviews with mothers of incarcerated sons, seeking to understand possessive love without judging it.
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