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La madre

La madre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 28, 2016

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

La madre

Production Companies

Alfama Films, Institut Valencià de Cinematografia (IVAC)

Director

Alberto Morais

Description

Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets. All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town. At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears