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Mothers & Daughters (2008)

Mothers & Daughters poster
Directed by
Carl Bessai
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film follows several mothers and daughters in Vancouver as they navigate their complex relationships. A romance novelist tries to be a friend to her adult daughter. A woman's bond with her daughter is strained after her husband leaves. A single painter steps in to help a pregnant teenager.

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What happens

Mothers and Daughters is a 2008 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai. The film, an exploration of mother-daughter relationships, centres on a group of women in Vancouver. Micki (Babz Chula) is a romance novelist who has tried to relate to her daughter Rebecca (Camille Sullivan) as a friend and peer rather than as a mother; Brenda (Gabrielle Rose) is a woman whose relationship with her daughter Kate (Tiffany Lyndall-Knight) is tested when her husband leaves her for another woman; Celine (Tantoo Cardinal) is a single house painter with no children, who has the opportunity to indulge her maternal instincts when her young client Cynthia (Tinsel Korey) needs assistance with her pregnancy. The characters and dialogue were developed by the actresses through an improvisational process. At the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival, the film won the audience award for Most Popular Canadian Film. Rose received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 30th Genie Awards. Bessai went on to make two more films, Fathers & Sons (2010) and Sisters & Brothers (2011), that used a similar process and structure to explore family dynamics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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