2016 Contemporary Italian Film Series: Mia Madre

The Italian Cultural and Community Center presents the 2016 Contemporary Italian Film Series.  The series screens at the Italian Cultural Center, 1101 Milford Street Houston, TX 77006.  Doors open at 6:30pm and films begin at 7:15pm. Movies are in Italian with English subtitles.

The next screening in this film series is Mia Madre, directed by Nanni Moretti starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti. (2015 release. 106 minutes).

Plot: Margherita is a short-tempered, self absorbed, angst-ridden director. She is working on a social-realist film about a factory strike starring Italian-American actor Barry Huggins as the factory owner.

Huggins consistently fails to deliver his lines properly and the shoot is exasperated by unhelpful advice from Margherita to her actors.

Try as she may to remain professional, Margherita is swept up in the emotional turmoil of moving out of her boyfriend’s apartment, dealing with a teenage daughter and a hospitalized mother.

Margherita’s inability to separate her private life from her work results in causing confusion all around her.