Me, my mother and others

de Lair Said
Argentina • 2025 • 1h15 • Vostfr
with Iair Said, Rita Cortese, Antonia Zegers
Acid selection – Festival de Cannes 2024

David, an unrighteous thirty-year-old, in full grief of love, must return to his native Argentina to attend the funeral of his uncle. While reuniting with his mother and his Jewish family, he embarked on a quest through Buenos Aires to calm his anxiety through lessons of driving, cheap health care, and seeking to sleep with any man who gave him a little attention.

“Around this too old child, the film will weave a burlesque of a crazy tenderness for this family of Argentine Jews who must become involved, in addition to the disease, death and price of life, this boy, including, above all, perhaps, for himself. [...] A first fiction film whose humour, softness, elegance and justness offer us a ‘kite à tools de la vie’ in which to draw for laughter its tragedies. » Romain André, Marion Naccache and Fanny Molins, filmmakers of the ACID