
Mother's Day
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)
- 6.0
- 1948
- Released
- 0h 22m

Marion Cunningham

Donald Pidgeon

Donald Nelson

Betty Lee Balder

Elaine Mitchell

Marion Farquhar

Jack W. Stauffacher

Bill Brewer

Louis Tyford

Robert Heid

Lee Mullican

Chris Rambo

Stanley Young

Dean Sandhagen

John Rucker
Released
en
- #coming of age
- #short film
Reviews

"Mother was the loveliest woman in the world". "Mother wanted everything to be lovely". Using a series of embryonic lighting techniques, a lively piano-based score and a series of not altogether coherent mini-sketches, we are presented with what appear to be memories of a couple, of them falling in love, of her widowhood and then more courting. She looks lovingly from her window, pining for what s











