Heiners Filmseiten – Goodnight Mommy (en)

Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, ich seh)

Spain title: Esa mami no es mi mami
Greek title: Καληνύχτα Μαμά
Russian title: Я вижу, я вижу
Original title: Ich seh, ich seh

Alternative titles:
Спокойной ночи, мама | Ich seh, Ich seh | Ich seh ich seh | Ich seh Ich seh

Thriller drama – Austria
Production year: 2014
Movie length: 99 minutes

Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Writer: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Cinematograph: Martin Gschlacht
Music: Olga Neuwirth

Movie description:

In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Ten-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.

In an isolated house in the countryside, nine-year-old twins Lukas and Elias live with their mother, who is recovering from recent cosmetic surgery. With her face puffy and grotesque under a swath of bandages, the mother requires absolute peace and quiet in order to recuperate, and this quickly begins to grate on the two restless boys. As she becomes more and more strict, the brothers retreat ever-further into their own private, aggressively anti-social world, their anger and suspicion mounting and their imaginations running wild – even to the extent of doubting that the person beneath the bandages is actually their mother at all.

Boy Actors