Conversations with MotherConversaciones con mamá (English language: Conversations with Mother) is a 2004 Argentine comedy-drama film directed and written by Santiago Carlos Oves.

The film stars Eduardo Blanco as a middle-aged man who has just lost his job and who has about to lose his home, his wife and his entire Argentinian-bourgeois world and China Zorrilla as his octogenarian mother.

The film was nominated for three awards and won two awards with actress China Zorilla winning at the Moscow International Film Festival and nominated for a Silver Condor Best Actress Award at the Argentine Film Critics Association Awards in 2005.

The film premiered on 15 April 2004 in Argentina and appeared in over ten countries worldwide.

Info
Original Name: Conversaciones con mamá
Director: Santiago Carlos Oves
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English / Hindi
Duration: 87min
Genre: Family Drama
Print Type: Color
DVD Price: Rs 349/-
Writer: Santiago Carlos Oves
Producer: Pascual Condito & Luisa Matienzo
Cinematographer: Anibal Bosco
Music: Pablo Sala

Posters

Conversations with Mother

Conversations with Mother
◄ Back
Picture 1 of 2

Awards
Winner
Best Actress
Moscow International Film Festival

Winner
Glauber Rocha Award
Montréal World Film Festival

Winner
Special Mention
Peniscola Comedy Film Festival

Synopsis
Mom is eigthy-two and Jaime, her son, is fifty. Both of them lives in different worlds. Jaime has a wife, and a mother-in-law fooling around. Mom lives alone and goes for herself like ever did. But one day Jaime gets fired and his world got down. The hard moment that he is passing through leads him to take drastic decisions cause his economic situation is not like it used to be. Jaime and Dorita own mom’s apartment. Jaime realizes he has no choice: he must pay off a mortgage, he owes some money and he is delayed in the payment of the credit cards. When Jaime goes to the apartment to talk with mom bout saling it, something happens and all his expectations fall down; mom has a boyfriend and they have just become steady. Mom is planning to live with him in the apartment against all odds.

email