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Mother and Son (French: Un petit frère, lit. 'A Little Brother') is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Léonor Serraille, starring Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Ahmed Sylla, Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi.
Mother and Son: Directed by Léonor Serraille. With Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Ahmed Sylla. In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons.
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons. Over the next 20 years, their family is constructed and deconstructed.
Spanning 30 years from their arrival in France to the present day, Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to her Caméra d’Or-winner Jeune Femme (Cannes 2017) is a moving chronicle about the construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.
A thrilling poetic-realist film, led by a superb Annabelle Lengronne. Earthy and impassioned, the film has less in common with the unadorned, politically charged cinema of Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers than with Steve McQueen’s Small Axe.
by Fabien Lemercier. 27/05/2022 - CANNES 2022: Léonor Serraille raises her game with a highly refined second feature following fifteen years in the tumultuous life of a family trio. Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin and Annabelle Lengronne in Mother and Son.
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
