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Ma ma
A Penélope's film is directed by Julio Medem follows a patient who suffers a breast cancer. Passing over the pain, she and her family react with the tragedy, which makes them close together.
19 May 1985, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
February 3, 1977 in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
20 March 1979, Madrid, Spain
13 October 1971, Lugo, Galicia, Spain
May 26, 2016
Though it stars the versatile, always watchable Penélope Cruz, who shows an expected flair for charismatic saintliness, even she can't rescue this impossibly beatific melodrama.
June 02, 2016
Long before anyone in "Ma Ma" expires, the movie does.
July 13, 2016
Ma Ma suffers from melodrama without catharsis.
December 22, 2016
About as cheery as getting prepped for surgery.
December 31, 2016
Ma Ma, at best minor Medem, unfolds like an afternoon TV movie that's been at the sherry, or placed on the heaviest of medication.
June 17, 2016
Not unlike Ali MacGraw in the equally apocryphal Love Story, the closer our heroine inches toward death's door, the more physically attractive she becomes. Phooey!
August 08, 2016
What is this telenovela doing in a cinema?
June 17, 2016
This is an old-school tearjerker, designed to get audiences sniffling in the dark.
June 01, 2016
"Ma Ma" clearly wants to be tearjerker, but there's no need to have tissues handy for this one.
June 20, 2016
Pah to logic and believability!
January 01, 2017
Though Ma ma's melodramatic DNA is hampered by Medem's austere aesthetic, there's still enough inherent emotional power to satisfy the casual arthouse crowd looking for alternative foreign fare this summer.

