The Mother of Tears
Short description
The Mother of Tears follows Sarah Mandy, an American art student in Rome, who opens an ancient urn with her colleague Giselle. Inside are objects belonging to Mater Lacrimarum, the last surviving member of a trio of powerful witches. Its opening unleashes violence across the city: murders, suicides and attacks multiply, while witches from around the world gather in Rome to serve their mistress. Giselle is killed by the witch's servants and Sarah escapes, learning that she has supernatural abilities of her own and is the only one who can stop the Mother of Tears. Directed by Dario Argento, who wrote the screenplay with Jace Anderson and Walter Fasano, the film is the fifteenth of the seventeen features he has directed, arriving after Jenifer and before Dracula 3D. It is the closing chapter of a trilogy that began with Suspiria and Inferno.
Asia Argento, the director's daughter, plays Sarah Mandy. The cast also includes Cristian Solimeno as Detective Enzo Marchi, Adam James as Michael Pierce, Moran Atias as Mater Lachrimarum, Valéria Cavalli as Marta Colussi and Philippe Leroy as Guglielmo De Witt. It was produced by Myriad Pictures, Medusa Film, Sky Cinema and Opera Film Produzione on a budget of about four million dollars, and it earned roughly three million worldwide, less than its cost. On TMDB it holds a rating of 4.5 out of 10 from 463 votes, indicating a poor reception from viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- It is claimed that director Dario Argento repeatedly offered the lead role to Ania Pieroni, whom he had already cast in the horror film "Inferno" (1980). The actress rejected the offer due to her age and the fact that she had retired back in 1985.
- This film is the final part of a well-known trilogy, the completion of which audiences had been waiting for almost 30 years – since the release of "Suspiria" (1977) and "Inferno" (1980). These are often considered the pinnacle of director Dario Argento's work and among the best horror films in Italian and world cinema.
- "Mother of Tears" (2007) is the final film in Dario Argento's trilogy known as the "Three Mothers" (which also includes the horror films "Suspiria" from 1977 and "Inferno" from 1980). The trilogy is to some extent based on the collection of essays "Suspiria de Profundis" by the English writer Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859).
- Daria Nicolodi and Asia Argento are mother and daughter in real life.
- The film's promotional trailer was first shown at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007. On this occasion, a restored version of "Suspiria" was also screened as part of the non-competitive Cannes Classics program.
- Udo Kier played Dr. Frank Mendel in Dario Argento's "Suspiria" (1977), and in this film, 30 years later, he returned to the "Three Mothers" trilogy in the role of Padre Johannes.
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