2025 · documentary · crime
Con Mum
Directed by Nick Green1h 28m2025
A chef's life is upended when a jet-setting, champagne-sipping, hotel-hopping woman claims to be his long-lost mother. This documentary reveals the untold story.
Our read: Con Mum (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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