My Mother Likes Women (A mi madre le gustan las mujeres) (2002)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 21
This likable movie lacks the bite its subject matter demands.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 9
This likable movie lacks the bite its subject matter demands.
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The debut film from the filmmaking team of Daniela Fejerman and Inés París, A Mi Madre le Gustan las Mujeres is a racy comedy starring Rosa María Sardŕ as Sofía. Divorced for years, Sofía gathers her three daughters, Sol (Silvia Abascal), Gimena (María Pujalte), and Elvira (Leonor Watling), together to celebrate her birthday and to make an announcement. It seems Elvira has fallen in love, which excites the girls until she reveals that it is a woman that she's been seeing. The title, A Mi Madre
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All Critics (40) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (21)
Elvira, Sol, and Jimena -- named for women in the life of El Cid -- are so spoiled and blind to their mother's happiness that they're often thoroughly unpleasant.
A sometimes cloying mix of screwball comedy and drama.
Top CriticLess side-splitting than a sad reminder of the past.
Offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling.
Despite the promise of its title, this is a movie that skirts the issues of gay relationships at every turn.
My Mother Likes Women wants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy.
It's a warm, sunny film that should remind viewers favorably of an early Aldomovar film, in which strong, beautiful, but slightly nutty women carry the day.
Sounds like a bad Almodóvarian television sitcom pilot.
... it's nice to know that Hollywood endings aren't entirely in the straight domain.
A graceless film about hateful people...apart from some Prague scenery in the last act, My Mother Likes Women is thoroughly ugly.
Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman's film does provide a measure of pleasure and a delicious premise that, wittier and less shrill, could be a terrific, timely and original remake for American audiences.
An aggressively silly take on subject matter that deserves more thought, but the performers -- virtually all of whom are women -- have so much energy and conviction you almost don't notice.
Sardŕ never makes a believable lesbian.
It's little more than an amusing sitcom.
This is a Spanish treat! Not really about lesbianism, but rather a broad comedy about a neurotic twenty-something trying to make sense of it all.
Likeable, not loveable.
...it's hard not to root for all these characters to get what they want.
Like a fourth-generation duplicate of an original--curiously pale and tired although straining for vivacity and color.
Skirts predictability and political correctness in equal measure, adding up to an entertaining night at the movies.
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