Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Directed by Carlos Saura
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Black Comedy, Satire |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - Spain, France |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
For the Spanish Mama Turns a Hundred, director Carlos Saura reassembles many of his cast members from his 1972 Anna and the Wolves. As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco regime, permitting Saura to use his greedy family as a microcosm of all that had gone bad in Spain since the Civil War. Though potentially grim, Mama Turns a Hundred is essentially a comedy, though many of the laughs are of the "shock of recognition" variety, especially for those who've come from a similarly avaricious family. The film was originally released as Mama Cumple Cien Anos.
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family, greed, inheritance, matriarch, Spain