4º – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
A widow and her young son cross the country in search of a place to live. The film will gain its substance by exploring every affective misconception of the woman along the way, always against the background of perseverance. ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ is a film that delivers positive and negative fragments on the human compendium in the world, working with the figure of a character who represents a very characteristic archetype in our society. The highlight of the play, certainly, is the irreplaceable performance of the actress Ellen Burstyn at the head of the protagonist.
3º – Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988)
In the plot, during World War II, a woman struggles to raise her children with precarious financial conditions. Belonging to the cinema of Claude Chabrol, ‘Story of Women’ exposes the destructive meanders that social exacerbations cause in the lives of several individuals, presenting the figure of a character victim of the circumstances. A powerful and necessary film.
2º – Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)
The film shows the limited day-to-day life of a mother and her son living isolated from the world in a small environment. ‘Room’ is sad when we look at its general apparatus, bringing a difficult and always surprising story.
1º – Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978)
We will work on the difficult relationship between an absent mother and her adult daughters, one of them with mental problems. Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece ‘Autumn Sonata’ brings an intriguing plot, scraping every fragment that comprises a cold and claudic relationship between the members of a family, presenting an unpleasant panorama of this compendium.
