Mother Of George (2013)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 0
No consensus yet.
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MOTHER OF GEORGE is a poetic and moving second feature by Andrew Dosunmu (RESTLESS CITY), starring Danai Gurira (Michonne from AMC's The Walking Dead, THE VISITOR). Featuring stunning work by acclaimed cinematographer Bradford Young (AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS), the film premiered to critical acclaim at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and will make it's New York premiere at the BAM Cinemafest before opening theatrically in mid-September. (c) Oscilloscope
Cast
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Danai Jekesai Gurira
Adenike Balogun -
Isaach De Bankolé
Ayodele Balogun -
Yaya Alafia
Sade Bakare -
Anthony Okungbowa
Biyi Balogen -
Bukky Ajayi
Ma Ayo Balogun -
Angélique Kidjo
Ma Nike -
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (0)
[A] lushly detailed and passionately performed melodrama ...
Top CriticGurira acts with fire and pride and, at times, a despair bordering on instability.
The cinematography by Bradford Young is rich-toned and lustrous, and the film, until it bogs down in melodramatics, has a sensual ease. We are not looking at these people from the outside. Dosunmu pulls us deep inside.
The movie's an eyeful, and the filmmakers' attention to surface texture results in passages of genuine eroticism.
An unexpected gem about true love, infertility and a meddling mother-in-law.
Darci Picoult's script renders all of these characters, if not always sympathetically, humanly and fully.
From the acting...to the music (especially Strauss's "Four Last Songs), it is remarkably full of life.
In [cinematographer Bradford Young's] striking compositions, shapes and patterns repeat, colors convey meaning (watch how - and when - rust and purple appear in Adenike, Ayodele and Biyi's clothing).
Frustrations one family faces between tradition and assimilation, freedom and obligation, success and personal fulfillment feels as movingly universal as culturally specific.
A stunningly imagined account of African immigrant life in present-day Brooklyn.
Oddly, the gradual pacing, with scenes that stress the pace of chill human interaction over narrative thrust, helps make the third act more powerful: The genuine catastrophe that results is made even more intense by the shagginess that preceded it.
The film forgoes the usual neo-realistic approach toward this sort of material for a painterly, meticulously composed technique. The result is transfixing.
Beautiful, poetic, and hard-hitting without the use of excessive force and deeply layered with evolving and regional nuances of feminine experience.
A glimpse of a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn who are trying to get pregnant.
When so many scenes are freighted with portent, one moment doesn't feel any more significant than the last...nothing the characters do is ever surprising; one expected revelation and argument follows the other.
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