Fresh
Argento is admired for his voluptuous use of color and his operatic bloodletting; this is lovely to look at, if you can stand to.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The Mother of Tears
What you see does not exist. What you cannot see is truth.
2007 · 1h 42m · R
Horror
Directed by
Dario Argento
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Dario Argento Director
- Asia Argento as Sarah Mandy
- Cristian Solimeno as Detective Enzo Marchi
- Adam James as Michael Pierce
- Moran Atias as Mater Lachrymarum
- Valéria Cavalli as Marta Colussi
- Philippe Leroy as Guglielmo De Witt
- Daria Nicolodi as Elisa Mandy
- Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni as Giselle Mares
- Udo Kier as Father Johannes
- Robert Madison as Detective Lissoni
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mother of Tears may not stand tall in Argento's body of viscera-laden work, but this final chapter of a loosely defined trilogy is refreshingly old school in its trashiness.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Aside from being vile and repellent, it's mainly dull -- old-fashioned in its shock tactics and culminating in a ho-hum climax.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
The visuals are vibrant and fans of Argento's bravura bloodletting will thrill to his imaginative use of pikes, entrails and his daughter, who performs a shower scene for Dear Old Dad.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
In The Mother of Tears, the last installment of the 'witch trilogy' that began, three decades ago, with Suspiria, an excavated urn unleashes a torrent of homicidal madness in Rome.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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