Ma Ma
Year: 2015
Country:
SPAIN, FRANCE
Run Time:
111 minutes
Penélope Cruz delivers one of her best and most heartfelt performances in this emotional drama about a woman confronting illness, the end of her marriage, and the future of her family. Cruz stars as Magda, a Madrid woman who has recently been laid off from her teaching job, and whose college professor husband has run off with one of his students. As she struggles to raise her young, soccer-crazed son, Dani, she learns she has bigger problems: a diagnosis of breast cancer. As she begins arduous chemotherapy, she befriends a grieving man named Arturo (Luis Tosar), whose wife and daughter were in a terrible accident. The two bond and Arturo helps Magda and Dani navigate a new set of obstacles. In MA MA, writer-director Julio Medem (“Sex and Lucia”) looks at love, loss, and motherhood, while steering towards the ethereal. Magda keeps seeing the dream-like presence of a pale, young girl. Who is she? And what do these visions mean? (In Spanish with subtitles) –C.O.
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Sidebars
Cinema en Español
Women of the World
Director
Julio Medem
Filmography
"Vacas" (1992), "The Red Squirrel" (1993), "Earth" (1996), "Lovers of the Arctic Circle" (1998), "Sex and Lucia" (2001), "The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone" (2003), "Chaotic Ana" (2007), "Room in Rome" (2010), MA MA (2015)
Producers
Penélope Cruz, Julio Medem, Alvaro Longoria
Screenwriting
Julio Medem
Cinematography
Kiko de la Rica
Editing
Iván Aledo, Julio Medem
Principal Cast
Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia, Àlex Brendemühl
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