2015 · drama · illness · motherhood
Ma Ma
Directed by Julio Medem1h 51m2015
After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.
Our read: Ma Ma (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · illness · motherhood entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / illness, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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