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Keeping Mum

2024 · 80 min

An intimate, gently playful portrait that wanders through family memory, mixing tenderness and unease as it tries to understand a difficult mother.

Overview
Emilie attempts to understand the mystery of her universe : her mother Meaud. Magical grandmother, broken child, punk mother, spontaneous feminist, she fascinates as much as she disrupts. How do you give your children the love that you were denied yourself ? How do you nurture your inner child when having gone through childhood trauma ? Jump into an intimate odyssey, an intergalactic journey into our own common psyche.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • trauma
  • identity
  • parenthood
  • healing
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Émilie Brisavoine
Written by
Émilie Brisavoine
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
80 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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