A twenty-year-old wrote, directed, produced and starred in this debut, which won three awards at Cannes and an eight-minute ovation. It follows a teenager’s stormy relationship with his mother as the boy works out who he is, and it’s where the career of one of cinema’s wunderkinds began.
Sixteen-year-old Hubert can’t stand the way his mother, Chantale, eats, drives or dresses, which is a problem when it’s just the two of them in a house in suburban Montreal. Every day brings a fresh row. At school, he tells his teacher that his mother is dead.
Cannes Film Festival
C.I.C.A.E. Award
2009
Cannes Film Festival
SACD Prize
2009
Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for Golden Camera
2009
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