Name: La pomme de Newton
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-06-09
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Irène Ismaïloff, Carole Deffit, Manuela Gourary

this TV movie has been made like Robert Altman's "Short cuts". It deals with cross livings of three women (young adult, adult and old woman) who works together in a cafeteria, telling their respective stories in front of a fourth character, a man who acts as a witness of their lives and their questionning about mother-daughter relationships. A young black girl living with her mother and the new husband of the latter, a white man, is questionning about her own love affair and her roots, wishing to go and find her "true" father whom she never knew. Like most teenagers (she is an old one:18)she blaims her own mother with everything, judging her very badly, and rejecting her father in law who is a very kind and sympathetic guy. She says :"you do not have to love your mother; it is not genetical". Finally, her mother joins her in her quest to fin her true father...what will be a total disappointment. Second story: an old woman suffered a dilemma, when she was young, between her boyfriend who lived at the other side of the world, and her new born baby girl. She decided, although it was heartbreaking, to abandon her child. Many years later, she finds her as the owner of an antiques shop. She plays the customer, tell her nothing, but socializes a bit and becomes to be hired as a housekeeper and helps her daughter dealing with her children, the cooking etc... She then falls in love with her daughter. the end of the story needs to be discovered as such. I won't tell it. The third girl, the adult one, goes back to her family home, discovers her mother being badly psychologically treated by her father, who says nothing, is selfish (sleeps alone and send his wife sleeping in the sofa, because she awakes him while moving in the bed during the night). Her mother has no self personality left, and looks like a zombie, not rebelling. The daughter then leads her mother's destiny, leaves the house with her, try to help her recover her self interest. It works, as the mother meets a new lover...

All these stories are told in an amused way, both pathetic and funny. Very good, but not very knon actors complete the painting.

French-language cinema, whether in France, Québec, or other Francophone regions, explores cultural identity, social change, and the tension between the individual and society. French cinema is not only celebrated for its intellectual experimentation and auteur traditions, but also its success in mainstream comedy, romance, and commercial entertainment. In Québec, films often focus on questions of language, belonging, and community within a distinct cultural landscape.

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