Roma, 18 Nov. (askanews) – Arrives in cinemas on November 20, after winning the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, “Young mothers” by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. This time the two directors enter a family home to tell the story of five young mothers, all growing up in difficult circumstances, struggling to achieve a better life for themselves and their children.
“We saw these people, educators, psychologists, who did everything to teach girls to feel responsible for another human being. – explained Jean-Pierre – We tell the story of a group of young mothers but each has their own loneliness, a problem with the family of origin, or violence, poverty. However, everyone in that family home can learn a new life.”
The new Dardenne film, lucid, dry, with essential but always exciting dialogues, also shows how motherhood is not just a natural event, free of difficulties and stumbles. “It is ideological to say that it is, it is not, particularly in situations like those described in the film, of girls who can no longer have an abortion. They don’t know if they want this child, they have to learn how to manage them but it doesn’t mean that they will decide to keep them. Motherhood is something you learn” said Jean-Pierre.
“Young Mothers” is however a film that shows paths of rebirth and hope. Luc explained: “What interested us about these five girls is how they can arrive at a choice that takes them out of the isolation they find themselves in. It’s a film that gives hope.”
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