Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day

Year: 1948

Runtime: 22 mins

Director: James Broughton

Drama

Embracing the medium’s ability to bend time and space, Broughton confronts past and present head‑on, viewing his childhood family and friends through an adult lens. The grown‑ups playfully behave like children, their exaggerated infantilism highlighting elemental traits such as sadism, sensuality and egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

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