“His name is mom,” the Wendy sang from ‘Peter Pan’ in which it is perhaps the most emotional song of the entire Disney movie. An issue that, by the way, have versioned artists such as Doris day over the years. Wendy was the lavish mother of the Lost children from the never ever And perhaps he would enter a selection of film mothers. There have been so many that it would be impossible to make a fair and reasoned selection of all have passed through the history of cinema.
Therefore, for this Mother’s Daywe have made a selection of films that speak of motherhood. We also tell you what platform see them. Although we do not know if it is the best way to celebrate such a day, surely they will delight those who enjoy stories that have to do with those complex, loved and hated figures, which give us life.
-Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)- Your movie
Exemplary melodrama under the protection of a mythical director, King Vidorand of a superb actress (to make us laugh or, as in this case, kill us with a good cry), Barbara Stanwyck. ‘Stella Dallas’ was a production of Samuel Goldwyn and one of those ‘women’s Pictures’ of female sacrifice that for decades were unfairly despised by critics. The film has shed tears to several generations of spectators with that end in which a mother renounces her daughter and has to contemplate, from a distance, how she marries and starts a new life without her.
– Imitation to life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)- Your movie
The last film of the Hollywoody race of Douglas Sirkthe so -called Melodrama teacher also the highest grossing of Universal in the entire 50 Actress who seeks fame at all costs at the expense of the relationship with her daughter) fell deep into the public.
– Two women (Vittorio Desa, 1960)- Amazon Prime Video y movie
Sofía Loren took home the first actress’s Oscar without speaking English and reached glory renouncing makeup and her sexiest side symbol thanks to this film that followed The wake of Italian Neorealism From the mid -40s. A mother and her daughter survive (even a terrible rape, a sequence that continues to put the hairs on top today) to all in a depressed Italy that suffers the sequelae of World war II. A drama full of strength that let us know that Loren was more than a face and a body.
– Sophie’s decision (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)- Filmin and Flixolé
Meryl Streep won one of his three Oscar for a story in which he plays a Polish mother who, after being transferred to Auschwitz, has to make the worst decision of her life: which of her two children dispenses so that one of them goes with the Nazis. The consequences of this terrible fact, narrated in flashback, will torment the posterior Sophie and show the viewer of this film The special streep talent with accents.
-Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1992)- Netflix and Prime Video
Sarah Connor is so iconic that he even has a song with his name. Amantic mother of the future Savior of Humanity in a war against machines, in ‘Terminator 2’ follows in the footsteps of a Arnold Schwarzenegger that in this sequel, and unlike in the first installment, he acts as a protector of her and her son. Russian mountain of unbridled action, at the time this was the most expensive film in the history of cinema and a good example that mothers are also very warriors. Especially in the feminist cutting cinema of James Cameron.
– Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)- Prime Video and Filmin
The face of happiness of Julia Roberts By winning his Oscar for giving life to Erin Brokovich he was one of those moments that we will never forget the Hollywood Academy Awards. Brockovich, a character that really existed, made civil action his way of life and, in the cinema, served the protagonist of ‘Pretty Woman’ to give life to a mother who fights whatever is needed by the bread of her offspring.
Next to his stepmother of ‘Stay by my side’another tape in which motherhood takes on great prominence, this may be the most moving film of all of all the Roberts.
– We have to talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)– Filmin and Movistar Plus +
The novel of Lionel Shriver She was transferred to the cinema by a Lynne Ramsey who wisely showed the pain of a mother before a problematic son who reaches psychopathy. Tilda Swinton He was crowned with one of the best characters of his already long career, making us see that the offspring are not always adorable creatures; That children can also get very chungos. Ramsey’s direction and its visual metaphors remain of absolute exquisiteness fourteen years after being seen for the first time.
– return (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)- Netflix
Manchegas mothers and daughters, egg custards, very clean tombs and ghosts of the past present. ‘Back’ is something like that the eternal return to the roots of his own Pedro Almodóvar. Also his highest grossing film and a historical success of Spanish cinema. In addition, it meant the absolute consecration of Penelope CruzOscar nomination included, and the return of the immense Carmen Maura to the cinema of the person who glory (and more dislikes, according to herself) professionals gave her. A gazpacho full of tasty ingredients that also stole our hearts with that end in which the adjustments of accounts with life translate into care and sorority between neighbors. Always accompanied by the melancholic music of Alberto Iglesias.
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