The Mother of Tears

2007 "What you see does not exist. What you cannot see is truth."
The Mother of Tears
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Released: 06 June 2008 Released
Producted By: Myriad Pictures
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An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.

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Scott LeBrun Filmmaker Dario Argento's concluding film in his "Three Mothers" trilogy (also featuring "Suspiria" (1977) and "Inferno" (1980)) is definitely not in the same league as the first two films. It's a certifiably wild and over the top succession of morbid images that does boast a certain degree of showmanship. Dario's daughter Asia stars as Sarah Mandy, a student of art restoration and archaeology in Rome who comes into possession of some ancient artifacts, the discovery of which spells doom for everybody as Mater Lachrymarum, the third of the deadly Three Mothers, visits evil upon the city of Rome; suicide is rampant and hostilities flare. Sarah, whose mother had once fought the forces of evil, eventually realizes that it's all on her to save the day, although she does get some help along the way, from people like Marta Colussi (Valeria Cavalli), Detective Enzo Marchi (Cristian Solimeno), and Father Johannes (Udo Kier, who'd previously been featured in "Suspiria"). Kier isn't around for very many scenes, but he's always welcome no matter how small his part may be, and it's also worth it just to see Asia share some scenes with her real-life mom Daria Nicolodi, who plays her mom in the film. As one can expect from a Dario Argento film, there's not a whole lot of sense here, and the spectacle does overwhelm what attempts are made at exposition. One very unfortunate fact here is that this is nowhere near as thickly atmospheric and beautifully lit as "Suspiria" or "Inferno"; this also does not have the feel of a freaky fairy tale as its predecessors, functioning in a very modern mode. Asia tries, but is not as engaging a presence as Jessica Harper or Irene Miracle. Composer Claudio Simonetti's work is of course good but just not that memorable. At the least, horror fans can delight in a film that delivers gore by the bucketful; some of it is so outrageous that it will have them roaring with appreciative laughter. And one thing that deserves a mention is that Moran Atias is far and away the sexiest of these three Mothers, looking quite delectable in her birthday suit. Dario does give the proceedings a fairly apocalyptic feel, and there is some delicious nastiness in the insane climax, but the ending is overall not terribly satisfying. People who love and admire Dario's previous films in this series may regard this as a real comedown, but taken for what it is, it's pretty entertaining. Seven out of 10.
ian_powell There is much to like here and I found myself more impressed with the film on 2nd viewing. I particularly liked the monkeys. But what kills the film for me is the lack of gravitas around the Mother figure here. she is too soft porn and thus difficult to take seriously. Her henchmen are fine, but she lacks genuine magic, and i. a film that takes magic as its subject, this pulls it down. In an Argento movie, we Can swallow the odd bit of scenery chewing (Udo) and even lack luster CGI and a lessening of the visual poetry of suspiria.... but only if that underlying sense of magic works. It half does work until the Mater turns up looking like a playboy centefold in a cape
Vivekmaru45 All that horror Argento has been eating over the years has come out without the use of any laxative. And it sure does STEENK!!! After watching Suspiria (The Mother Of Sighs), and Inferno (The Mother of Darkness), you'd think Argento would give us his best for last. No unfortunately it is the SH*T-END of Argento's stick(possibly after scr*wing ASIA in the A*S).There is zero suspense in the film. In the gore department, the film goes overboard. There is more profanity is this film than the other two.Plot: An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.Final Vedict: Argent should've made a p*rno of Asia getting double Penetrated instead.
dleet-930-249422 ***Disclaimer*** This has a lot of plot points in it, if you plan on watching the film, which I would NOT recommend, Do Not Read this Review! Honestly, upon viewing this movie, I was initially excited. The beginning scenes brought a sense of terror to the viewer and made you think, oh wow this is going to be a good movie. As you continue watching though, things just get worse and worse.Sarah, the main heroine of the movie, comes off as mildly pathetic, and amazingly enough seems to survive some pretty sad attempts at her life. My favorite is one in which a witch has her trapped in a bathroom, and sticks her head in between a SLIDING DOOR AND THE FRAME to allow her to smash her head to bits. Yeah, apparently these "witches" do nothing more than run around acting like something else that rhymes with "itches" and scream a lot. The "coven" of celebratory witches from all over the world is in a damp dirty catacomb filled with about 25 to 40 people.... oh, and somehow they have managed to capture, kill, or torture every person Sarah has managed to get into contact with.There are huge plot holes that have on real explanation, such as the Cop just showing up at the end, with no explanation of why he was there, how he found her, or who told him anything about where she was going, he was just there. For an ending of a series of movies, I thought Dario would make this a 2 hour movie, fill in some of the plot holes, and maybe, just MAYBE, make out Sarah to be a little better than she turns out to be. There is no explanation of the Mother of Tears really, how the shirt is a Talisman at all, or why destroying it would bring down the house.It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, and in the end, what you have is a series of violent deaths, a lot of flashy camera work, and a convoluted washed out story that ends up making pretty much no sense and ends so quickly you wonder why you wasted an hour and a half watching the film.