Brussels-based sales company Be For Films has closed a raft of pre-sales on Julien Carpentier’s feature debut “La vie de ma mère,” a mother-and-son dramedy, starring Agnès Jaoui and William Lebghil.

I have exactly no idea what to make of the random plunge into perversity called Ma Mere and need someone to explain it to me. I know there's a young man (Louis Garrel) who returns from school to find ...

In a frenzied choreography, Célestin speaks to us about the urgent need to save his mother yeti, while black figures dance, consume and mistreat her under the animals’ helpless gaze.