Two Mothers (2013)

Original title

Adoration

Directed by

Anne Fontaine

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia, France

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,041 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is about two lifelong middle-aged friends who begin having sexual relationships with each other's teenage sons. The story focuses on the emotional fallout from these ongoing affairs.

intimateunsettlingprovocativetenseemotionally complexslow-burncontemplativemelancholicvisceral

What happens

Adoration (known in North America and the U.K. as Adore and in France as Perfect Mothers) is a 2013 drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It is Fontaine's first English-language film. It stars Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Ben Mendelsohn, Xavier Samuel, and James Frecheville. The film tells the story of a pair of middle-aged women who are life-long friends and have sex with each other's teenage sons, and the resultant emotional consequences of their ongoing affairs. It is based on a 2003 novella by British writer Doris Lessing called The Grandmothers. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival under its original title Two Mothers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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