Mamma Gógó

A semi-autobiographical tale, MAMMA GÓGÓ is a poignant and often funny character study of a self-absorbed film director's relationship with his aging mother. The director has just made “Children of Nature,” a film about old people in Iceland. He pompously expects it to speak to the hearts of his countrymen while it pulls in an Oscar® nomination. When nobody comes out in droves to see it, the Icelandic Film Commission begins reminding him that he owes them a lot of money. He starts grasping at straws, like making unsound financial investments and accepting the directing job for an ill-advised Viking movie starring Paris Hilton. Meanwhile his fiercely independent mother shows signs of Alzheimer's disease. Distracted by his own financial, professional, and marital woes, he fails to take her problems seriously – until she endangers herself and the family must look into institutionalizing her. MAMMA GÓGÓ is a tour de force by veteran actress Kristbjörg Kjeld whose 1962 breakout performance in “The Girl Gogo” also features here. (In Icelandic with subtitles) – B.B.