Motherland

Name: Motherland
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-05-23

Documentary1h 33m

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Storyline

Director Miriam Pucitta grew up as the child of Italian migrant workers in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s. She herself has only fragmentary memories of this time; her mother and other relatives evade Miriam's questions. Together with her daughter Giulia, she researches her family's living conditions in Switzerland and finds a new understanding of her parents' difficult decisions.

Details

DirectorMiriam Pucitta

ReleasedMay 23, 2024

StatusReleased

Original languageGerman

Budget

Reviews

6 reviews · 5 critics

3 fresh · 2 rotten

Frank Scheck

RTThe Hollywood ReporterSep 28, 2012

Motherland doesn't fully succeed on any of its levels. But Doris Yeung's subtle and intelligent debut feature contains enough interesting elements to mark the filmmaker as someone to watch.

Walter V. Addiego

RTSan Francisco ChronicleAug 25, 2011

Yeung tries to mix a whodunit with a story of explosive family dynamics, but the effort succumbs to a weak script and a one-note lead performance.

Mike Hale

RTNew York TimesMar 18, 2011

Plays like an artsy short stretched to 93 minutes.

David Noh

RTFilm Journal InternationalMar 18, 2011

Besides its requisite thrills, the Asian-American experience has rarely been better captured than in this taut, sensitively drawn murder mystery.