Young Mothers

Film details

Film TitleYoung Mothers
Suitability
Genre
Length106mins
Year2025
CountryBelgium, France
DirectorJean-Pierre Dardenne
ActorsLucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi, Jef Jacobs, Günter Duret, Christelle Cornil, India Hair, Joely Mbundu, Claire Bodson, Eva Zingaro, Adrienne D'Anna, Mathilde Legrand, Hélène Cattelain
LanguageFrench
AKAJeunes mères
Showings

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julie, Naïma and Ariane, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

Brings nothing new to the Dardennes’ canon, but there’s comfort in the familiarity of their methodology. They’ve always had a knack for coaxing tremendous performances from even the youngest of actors, and the cast here is uniformly excellent.

There is such simplicity and clarity here, an honest apportioning of dignity and intelligence to everyone on screen: every scene and every character portrait is unforced and unembellished.