

Mommy
The film revolves around a widowed mother Diane Després- Die Considered white trash by many, Die does whatever she needs, including strutting her body in front of male employers who will look, to make an honest living. That bread-winning ability is affected when she makes the decision to remove her only offspring, fifteen year old Steve Després, from her previously imposed institutionalization, one step below juvenile detention.With this institutionalization, she has to take care of him which means only being able to do home based work. Their lives, both individually and as a family, are affected with the entrance of two of their neighbors.They are Paul, a lawyer who tries to help Steve through his legal problems and Kyle who lives across the street with her husband Patrick and their adolescent daughter.




















30 October 1990, Quebec, Canada

23 June 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada






12 May 1969, Montreal, Canada



June 06, 2016
In Mommy, Dolan has essentially stunted his work, speaking both figuratively and literally.
January 01, 2016
It's perhaps a never-seen-before technical stunt that's deeply intriguing, seriously cinematic and impossible to discuss without giving it all away.
February 05, 2015
Dolan is able to weave dialogue, camerawork, a fluid yet urgent editing style, and a magpie's ear for pop music into a cinematic world that you can almost hold in your hand before it starts spilling over.
December 21, 2015
You can see the talent that lies beneath Dolan's aggressive method, and the promise of something great in his future.
February 02, 2015
Mother and son gesticulate wildly but remain undefined; Dolan's blandly showy aesthetic matches the vainly hectic action.
February 12, 2015
A story of the combative relationship between a mother and her son filled with delirious swells of effusive love and sudden plummets into madness and hate.
January 30, 2015
Dolan is only 25, and though he doesn't have Orson Welles beat, this has to be one of the best films ever written and directed by a 25-year-old.
February 05, 2015
The movie's overlong, underpopulated and often devastating to watch. But it's told with an uncanny realism, and when it's over you feel shaken and a little sick - and realize that you can finally exhale.
April 06, 2016
Mommy forces you to give in to its relentless energy. Dolan conducts it with gusto, leaving us with a cathartic reckoning with his own demons.
August 11, 2015
A work of haunting power.
February 20, 2015
I suppose the relationship is Oedipal or primal or something or other, but mostly it's just an excuse for Dolan to stage a series of gaudy shout-fests.
December 31, 2015
Xavier Dolan's Mommy is an endurance test even by the standards of miserablist drama.