In this exuberant, colorful drama based on an incredible-but-true story, the matriarch of a bustling Moroccan-Jewish family living in Paris will do anything to give her youngest son the best possible life.
French-Algerian actress Leïla Bekhti delivers a radiant, powerhouse turn as Esther Perez, a spirited immigrant whose world is upended when she’s told her newborn son has a severe clubfoot and will never walk. Refusing to accept such a fate, she launches a relentless—and often riotously funny—campaign: storming clinics, sparring with specialists, and invoking medical miracles and divine intervention.
A fiery adaptation of Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan, the best-selling autobiographical novel by French radio personality Roland Perez set in the 1960s-1970s. Featuring music by Sylvie Vartan (who plays herself in the film!), and cinematography by Oscar-nominated DP Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist).
Winner of Best Drama at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and at the San Diego, Miami, Toronto, and Australia Jewish film festivals.
“One of the most beautiful films of the new year, between laughter and tears!”
—Sortir à Paris
“A true tribute to courageous and determined mothers.”
—Ecostylia Magazine
“New French film reimagines the Jewish mother archetype through a Moroccan Mizrahi lens.”
—The Jerusalem Post
Massachusetts premiere.
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Brookline, MA 02446
$15.00 senior
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