''Conversations with Mother'' ( es, Conversaciones con mamá) is a 2004 Argentine comedy-drama film directed and written by

Santiago Carlos Oves Santiago Carlos Oves (14 September 1941 – 2 May 2010) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1983 and 2009. His 2004 film ''Conversations with Mother'' was entered into the 26th Moscow International ...

.''Conversaciones con mamá''
at the

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. The film stars Eduardo Blanco as a middle-aged man who has just lost his job and who has about to lose his home, his wife and his entire Argentinian-bourgeois world and

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as his octogenarian mother. The film was nominated for three awards and won two awards with actress

winning at the

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and nominated for a

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Best Actress Award at the

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in 2005. The film premiered on 15 April 2004 in Argentina and appeared in over ten countries worldwide.

Plot

Jaime, a middle aged Argentine man who has lost his job, is pressured by his wife to sell the apartment he maintains for his mother, who is 82, in order to keep their lifestyle intact. Jaime, over several conversations with his mother, tries to convince her to move in with them, so he can sell it. She knows that she wouldn’t be happy living with him, his wife, his two teenagers and his wife’s mother, so she resists. She eventually tells him that part of the reason that she doesn’t want to give up the apartment is that she has a boyfriend, who is 79, and whom she met when she discovered that he was eating the food she left out for the neighborhood cats. Talking with his mother and remembering the past helps him get in touch with his values of his youth. He decides to divorce his wife and to let her keep everything except the apartment.

Cast

... Mamá * Eduardo Blanco ... Jaime *

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... Gregorio *

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... Dorita * Floria Bloise ... Lucrecia * Nicolás Condito ... Chico * Tito Mendoza ... Enfermero

Producers

* Pascual Condito .... producer * Luisa Matienzo .... producer *

.... producer * Carlos Piwowarski .... associate producer * Jorge Piwowarski .... associate producer * Mónica Roza .... executive producer/producer

References

External links

* 2004 films Argentine comedy-drama films 2004 comedy-drama films Tragicomedy films 2000s Spanish-language films 2000s Argentine films {{2000s-comedy-drama-film-stub