Mother and Son

Mother and Son

Directed by Léonor Serraille

Produced by Blue Monday Productions, France 3 Cinéma

2022116 min6.5 / 10

A tender, melancholic chronicle of an immigrant family's 20-year journey through love, struggle, and inevitable change in the Paris suburbs.

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

Questions people ask

  • Is Mother and Son sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is Mother and Son easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.

  • Is Mother and Son scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is Mother and Son violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Does Mother and Son end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

27/ 100

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