Mamá, mamá, mamá
Mum, Mum, Mum
© Rebeca Rossato Siqueira/Rita Cine & Bomba Cine
“Have you blown the candles already?” – “No, I had to blow the imaginary ones, because mum is with the auntie.”
The house is full of people, but Cleo is alone. Her grandmother, aunt and cousins are constantly around, and have been ever since her little sister Erin drowned in the pool, leaving Cleo’s mother withdrawn and unresponsive. Cleo‘s world has become fragmented; a series of brief snapshots – partly crooked, fixated on the smallest details, the colours all but faded away. Again and again, splintered memories cut into a painfully changed present, but so, too, does life: in the closeness with the cousins, their games, a birthday party, Cleo’s first period, and in the garden full of rustling plants. With care, patience and tenderness, the girls and women fill a place of sorrow with life.
The house is full of people, but Cleo is alone. Her grandmother, aunt and cousins are constantly around, and have been ever since her little sister Erin drowned in the pool, leaving Cleo’s mother withdrawn and unresponsive. Cleo‘s world has become fragmented; a series of brief snapshots – partly crooked, fixated on the smallest details, the colours all but faded away. Again and again, splintered memories cut into a painfully changed present, but so, too, does life: in the closeness with the cousins, their games, a birthday party, Cleo’s first period, and in the garden full of rustling plants. With care, patience and tenderness, the girls and women fill a place of sorrow with life.
With
- Agustina Milstein (Cleo)
- Chloé Cherchyk (Nerina)
- Camila Zolezzi (Manuela)
- Matilde Creimer Chiabrando (Leoncia)
- Siumara Castillo (Aylín)
- Vera Fogwill (Aunt)
- Jennifer Moule (Mother)
- Shirley Giménez (Karen)
- Ana María Monti (Grandmother)
- Florencia González Rodríguez (Erín)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière |
Cinematography | Rebeca Rossato Siqueira |
Editing | Joaquín Elizalde, Valeria Racioppi |
Music | Mauro Mourelos |
Sound Design | Lucas Larriera |
Sound | Lara Baldino |
Production Design | Ángeles Frinchaboy |
Costumes | Carmela Pérez Morales |
Make-Up | Mariana Jara |
Assistant Director | Lucía Bonells |
Casting | María Laura Berch, Soledad San Martín |
Production Manager | Daniela Martínez Nannini |
Producer | Laura Mara Tablón |
Executive Producer | Laura Mara Tablón |
Co-Producer | Florencia de Mugica |
Co-Production | Bomba Cine Buenos Aires |
Produced by
Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière
Born in Argentina in 1996, she studied film directing at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. In 2017, she won first prize in a competition for new filmmakers run by the INCAA Argentine Film Institute which included support for her debut film Mamá, mamá, mamá, which she shot with an all-female crew.
Filmography
2018 Hveragerði; short film 2020 Mamá, mamá, mamá (Mum, Mum, Mum)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020