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mother couch

Year: 2024

Running time: 96

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23778430

Diane says: “Mother (Ellen Burstyn) has plunked herself down on a couch in a furniture store and refuses to get up. Her youngest son David (Ewan McGregor) is torn between tending to his mother and trying to get to his daughter’s birthday party. Chain-smoking sibling Linda (Lara Flynn Boyle) just wants to call 911, while older brother Griff (Rhys Ifans) is more interested in chatting up the attractive store owner. Facing failure as a son, father, and brother, David is trapped in family dysfunction, childhood memories, and crazy dreamlike metaphors.

“MOTHER COUCH, which I saw at 2023 TIFF, has made it to streaming and I recommend it. Swede Niclas Larsson based this feature debut on his friend’s novel Mamma i soffa (how I wish I could read an English translation of that!).

“The movie’s surrealism brought to my mind SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK and Burnstyn’s wonderful refrigerator scene in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. Larsson told the TIFF audience that his film crew had a script of sorts to follow, but the cast did not know what was going to happen day to day.

“A standout for direction, soundtrack, production design. (Larsson said, ‘I looked at so many couches.’) 4 cats.”
Mother, Couch

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