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Maternité

1935 · 87 min

A quiet, sorrowful old drama about sacrifice and hidden love, told with earnest simplicity and a heavy heart.

Overview
Marthe, a robust peasant, is a single mother. For her child to be happy, she abandons him to the Duchemin household, eager for an impossible motherhood. Later, the young man is still unaware of the obscure sacrifice of his real mother.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • class
  • identity
  • grief
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Directed by
Jean Choux
Starring
Hella Müller, Françoise Rosay, Félix Oudart, Henri Presles, Sra. Cossini, Odette Talazac, Gouget, Thérèse Reignier
Runtime
87 min

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