Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Brilliant and touching

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

In Madrid, the divorced middle-age pianist Sofía (Rosa Maria Sardà) discloses to her daughters Elvira (Leonor Watling), Gimena (María Pujalte) and Sol (Silvia Abascal) on the day of her birthday that she is in love with the talented Czechoslovak pianist Aliska (Eliska Sirová), who is twenty-years younger than she.The bigoted sisters are shocked with the revelation and do not accept the idea that their mother is lesbian. Elvira is an insecure and neurotic young aspirant writer that has a lousy job in a publishing house; Sol is the singer of a rock band; and Gimena is married with a boy and has a troubled marriage with Raúl.When they discover that her mother has lent all her savings to support the education of Aliska, they decide to seduce the girlfriend to make her leave their mother. But when Aliska returns to her country alone and their mother is very depressed, they need to try to revert the situation. Meanwhile the nervous Elvira meets the writer Miguel (Chisco Amado) and has a clumsy relationship with him."A Mi Madre le Gustan las Mujeres" is a witty, funny and highly entertaining comedy with a delightful story of prejudice against sexual preference. The unknown (in Brazil) Leonor Watling is simply fantastic in the role of an unstable end neurotic young woman.There are memorable scenes, like Sol singing her song dedicated to her mother in a rock'n'roll concert; or Elvira having lunch with her boss and Miguel; or the groom kissing the bride in the wedding. In the end, I laughed a lot with this light-hearted dramatic comedy. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Minha Mãe Gosta de Mulher" ("My Mother Likes Woman")

Having seen many films by and about lesbians, and having heard many real-life stories of how families deal with middle-aged women's first relationship with a woman, I recommend skipping A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres. I laughed a few times, and there were a couple of sweet moments, but they hardly made it worth seeing. The conflict was all either unrealistic or reminiscent of scenes in hundreds of other movies. For its entertainment, the film relies on tired plot twists. The three daughters devise a plan, their plan backfires; they change their mind and devise a new plan that is the opposite of the first plan… The only character development is that of the middle daughter, Elvira, who is pathetic, desperate, and annoying. The other characters are flat and recycled. Disappointingly, the characters of the mother and her girlfriend, which could have made for an interesting film, were completely undeveloped, which just perpetuates the invisibility of lesbianism in cinema. There are no sex scenes between women in the film; in fact, the mother and her girlfriend don't show any affection, yet we're supposed to believe they're in love with each other. I had to force myself to watch the entire film and not walk out of the theatre before it ended. Unfortunately, the ending was as predictable as the rest of the film.Late Bloomers (a light comedy-drama), Lianna (Canadian, made in the 80s), Losing Chase (with Helen Mirren), and Aimee & Jaguar (a true story, set in Nazi Germany) are much better films depicting a mother acting on an attraction to another woman.

"My Mother Likes Women" is a subtitled Spanish comedy about what happens when a divorced middle aged Madrid mother introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover...a woman. Bemused at the mother's lesbian leanings the three daughters set about to cope with the situation which, of course, leads to a variety of contrived comic moments. Breezy, fun, bright, and well directed, this film is a showcase for Lenor Watling's worthy characterization of the middle daughter; the centerpiece of the film. "My Mother Likes Women" should appeal most to Watling fans, lesbians, females in general, and aficionados of Spanish cinema. Subtitle translations are below par. No nudity and should qualify for about a PG-13 rating for mature theme elements. (B)

As Spanish comedies go, this entry directed by Daniela Fejerman and Ines Paris, elicit only a few laughs. To be fair to these directors, everything coming from Spain suffer unfairly when compared with anything by the master of comedy from that country: Pedro Almodovar.This film presents a situation that is a bit unusual, Sofia, the divorced mother of three young women has fallen in love with another woman. Horror of horrors, how could mother do that to the girls? Well, the daughters seem to forget their mother has been on her own for a while, and being of a certain age, she doesn't get a lot of men calling on her, or maybe she always was a lesbian trying to lead a so-called "normal" life in Spain. Sofia's daughters are an egotistical lot. They all have a life of their own, yet, they decide, upon hearing from their mother's lips the truth of the situation, to get rid of her mother's interest. Eliska, the young lover, is put through the ringer because the daughters want to separate them in the worst way. Leonor Watling's Elvira, is perhaps the best of the daughters. Rosa Maria Sarda, looks like a mother, not like a woman that has suddenly turned lesbian, at all. The rest of the players are adequate.