All is going well in Fanny’s busy life… until she discovers that her beloved son Arthur, 9, is the scapegoat for three boys at her school. Fanny won’t leave her young boy alone to face her little tormentors: she’ll let these filthy children have their way. Jokes and playground traps… from here on out “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”.
This wonderful comedy pitch is the very beautiful feature film Ma Reum which was released in theaters in 2018. A wickedly hilarious delirium, hilariously regressive and generous with gags, in which Audrey Lamm is irresistible as a mother determined to make amends with those who attack her offspring.
A year after the making of Sales Gosses, which saw a camp instructor (Thomas Soliveres) exacting revenge on a group of pensioners. “dirty kids” Making life difficult for him, Frederick Quiring takes a humorous approach to a serious issue with Ma Reum, in this case school bullying. But before talking about this topic, the main desire of the director was to inflame the relationship between the little boy and his mother.
“The love he has for her is clumsy but immense”he declares. “Furthermore, humor is the language that seems most obvious to me today to express myself. It’s not the easiest, because it sets a precise rhythm: when you stick to a comedy script, you can’t think, something has to happen every thirty seconds.
“In the next second, he can do a karate chop on you.”
The choice of Audrey Lamm in the title role was made in advance. “Audrey was a young mother, she had already experienced that motherly feeling, and as an actress she had this very personal and unique energy that fit Fanny’s character perfectly.Frederick Quiring declares. “He’s full of tenderness and love, but the next second he can karate you.”
A huge success in French cinemas with almost 800,000 screenings, Ma Reum, a somewhat forgotten comedy today, had to be (re)discovered quickly. Would you like to see Audrey Lammy as a mother who runs out to protect her child? So get on Netflix!
Source: Allocine
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