Mommy (2014 film)

Mommy is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It was selected to compete for the Palme dOr in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. The film won nine Canadian Screen Awards at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, including Best Motion Picture and ten Jutra Awards at the 17th Jutra Awards, including Best Film. It was also Best Foreign Film at the 40th Csar Awards.

The film stars Anne Dorval as Diane Desprs, a widowed mother who is overwhelmed by the difficulty of raising her troubled, sometimes violent son Steve Antoine Olivier Pilon as a single parent. Desprs then begins to receive assistance and support from her mysterious new neighbour Kyla Suzanne Clment.The film was shot in aaspect ratio although most modern films are shot in 1.851 or 2.351 aspect ratios. On the unusual aspect ratio, Xavier Dolan said, I know a lot of people are saying, Oh, 11, how pretentious. But for me, it seems a more humble and private format, a little more fitting to these lives were diving into. Cinemascope 2.351 would have been extremely pretentious and incompatible for Mommy. To try to get in that apartment and film these people in that aspect ratio would have been unseemly. ........

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