Martha, Martha
Recommended byAgnès Varda
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Martha is hardly an ideal mother to her six-year-old daughter Lise, and while her husband Reymond is loving and sympathetic, he isn't sure what to do for her. Reymond makes a meager income selling used clothing at a flea market, and Martha is hard put to support the family's budget on what he earns. Martha has a checkered past and a less than cordial relationship with her family, and when she decides to visit her parents, they coldly tell her they were hoping her sister Marie, currently living in Spain, had stopped by instead. Stung by the incident, Martha decides she wants to talk to her sister, and she drags Reymond and Lise along for a Spanish vacation they can ill afford. As it turns out, Marie and her husband Juan aren't much happier to see Martha than her parents were, and a night out at a restaurant turns into a bitter quarrel when Martha's neuroses get the better of her.
Credits
- Production Compagny : La Sept, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Light Night, Maison de la Culture du Havre
- Distributor : Doc sur grand écran
- Original Music : Jorge Arriagada
- Editing : Valeria Sarmiento
- Sound Recorder : Jean-Claude Brisson, Laurent Barbey
- Original Work Author : Sadegh Hedayat
- Scenario : Benoît Peeters, Raoul Ruiz
- Executive Producer : Jean-Luc Larguier
- Photo Director : Patrice Cologne
- Costume Design : Alain Hecquart
- Set Decoration : Alain Hecquart
- Director : Raoul Ruiz
Technical details
- Printed format : 16 mm
- Year of production : 2001
- French release date : 18 December 1990
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colorized
- Language : French