Once Upon My Mother (2025)
Kernel Score: 75% · 216 ratings
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2025-03-19
Runtime: 102 minutes
Overview
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Director
Ken Scott
Cast
- Leïla Bekhti as Esther Perez
- Jonathan Cohen as Roland Perez (Adult)
- Joséphine Japy as Litzie Gozlan
- Sylvie Vartan as Sylvie Vartan
- Jeanne Balibar as Mrs. Fleury
- Lionel Dray as Maklouf Perez
- Anne Le Ny as Mrs. Vergepoche
- Milo Machado-Graner as Jacques Perez (12-17 years old)
- Naïm Naji as Roland Perez (5-7 years old)
- Iliana Belkhadra as Nicole Perez (15-20 years old)