6/29/2023 0 Comments From mom & me & mom![]() Remarkably, his strategy doesn’t play like the contrivance that it is, thanks to the (at times) painfully intimate exchanges he captures.įrom an imprisoned drug addict desperate to connect with his mother, to a man who’s settling in with the sad realisation that his mother is losing her memory to Alzheimer’s, to a middle-aged man who’s finally warming to his mother after a rough upbringing: the relationships Wardrop depicts are all touching and involving. Wanting to explore the effect a mother figure has on man’s masculinity, Wardrop conceived of the radio show device to unify all the stories. Using the radio segment as a springboard, Wardrop drops in on the lives of the men who phone, each of whom have wildly different relationships with the women that brought them into the world. His sophomore effort, Mom and Me, sees the film-maker venture out to Oklahoma – described at the start of the picture as the “manliest state” in the US – to follow radio show personality Joe Cristiano, who, with Mother’s Day nearing, asks men to call in and discuss their mothers on air. ![]()
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