Heiners Filmseiten – Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence (en)

Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence (La Comédie de l’innocence)

Francaise title: Comédie de l’innocence
Spain title: La Comedia de la Inocencia
Greek title: Η κωμωδία της αθωότητας
Russian title: Сын двух матерей, или Комедия невинности
Original title: La Comédie de l’innocence

Alternative titles:
Fils de deux mères ou Comédie de l’innocence

Feature – Frankreich
Production year: 2000
Movie length: 95 minutes

Director: Raoul Ruiz
Writer: Françoise Dumas, Raoul Ruiz
Cinematograph: Jacques Bouquin
Music: Jorge Arriagada

Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence

Movie description:

Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman’s face – an intriguing picture. Later that day, Camille’s mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boys appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his real home and his real mother.

Camille is nine. On his birthday he asks quite a normal question, but one that amuses his mother, father and uncle: »And you Mummy, where were you when I was born?« Things are spoiled when the child announces to his mother that he no longer wants to call her »Mummy« but by her first name, then some time later, the mother offers him to present his real mother to Camille.
Adaptation of a novel by Massimo Bontempelli.

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