Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Please don't spend money on this.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Some people do not like categorizing this movie as a horror movie and even though I understand where they come from, I highly disagree. It's not a typical horror movie for sure, but it's a film that will follow you and that stays with you long after you watch it. It is a very disturbing movie, but not in the way that you would think. The entire movie is shot in black and white which only adds to the beauty of it. The director uses black and white to try and "reinvigorate" the visual beauty of old movies and to show that black and white can be just as interesting as color (if not more). And it works. The way that it is filmed adds to the story and makes it much more dramatic and gives it an eerie feeling.As simplistic as the plot is, it really does not take away of the beauty of the film. It starts off with a younger version of Francesca (played by Olivia Bond) who lives on a secluded farmhouse with her surgeon mother and her father. Even as a young seemingly innocent child you can tell that she is no normal child. Something dark and unsettling lingers in her eyes. At this young age Francesca is forced to witness a deeply traumatic event which seems to awaken that darkness from deep inside her.Fast forward a few years later as a young woman we follow her as she tries to cope with loneliness while falling deeper into the darkness (played by Kika Magalhaes ). She is a dark, brutal character who's actions make you terrified of her but in a weird way watching her try to socialize and live a normal life brings out some sort of an innocence in her that makes you feel sympathy for her and Kika Magalhaes manages to bring out both of those sides of her beautifully.The bottom line is that it's a movie that you will either love very much or a movie that you will hate. It is a very hard film to digest after all. For me, I was hooked from the first scene. The eerie, hypnotic cinematography combined with the beautiful soundtrack make it a very enjoyable viewing.That being said, hopefully I managed peak your interest without revealing too much of the movie and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the movie. If you are a fan of unique and different movies you will definitely enjoy this. This was Nicolas Pesce's directorial debut and for his first film he did an excellent job and I will definitely be looking forward to his future projects.

This is what a horror movie should be. I was disturbed. Unsettled. After the movie, the story and characters stayed with me for awhile. There was true heart and soul put into this into this entire film; the story, the characters, the cinematography, the direction. Every aspect of this movie was well planned and executed.I highly recommend The Eyes of My Mother. It is definitely worth your time.

Here's The Lowedown on "The Eyes of my Mother" (R - 2016 - US)...The universe is unfolding as it should.Genre: Horror/DisturbingMy Score: 5.6Cast=3 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=4 Story=7 Scare=3 Jump=2 F/X=7 Gore=6 Disturb=9A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life. "Loneliness can do strange things to the mind." This movie was twisted...disturbing...and boring!! The score may not reflect this, but I did not like this film. It's all filmed in black and white and that takes away from the visceral gore that should have been seen. The film was so slow that I wanted to shut it off...I've had dentist appointments that felt shorter than this movie. Unless you have a love for slow, twisted B&W horror...I can't recommend this. I will just put this on my shelf never to be seen again.

Sometimes, the road to the most absolute desolation, passes through murder, torture and confinement. In The Eyes of My Mother (2016), Nicolas Pesce's first film, violence does not impress by the use of blood but by its coldness, in the camera, in the actors, in the landscape: an icy nature that, however, in itself does not exclude the recognition in the other. The horror and the disturbance, in black and white (the most suitable media to express the light and the darkness of time) crosses the eyes of the spectators and the characters; and this horror tinged with the sadness of fado, the Portuguese songs that seem even more desolate in the immensities of the North American prairies (almost as in those typical Russian songs, where there is always a husband, a son or a mother, lost in the war, or winter, and that never returns), in the end, recreates an appearance of pain, the illusion of a self-contained picture that closes on itself and from which the viewer can not easily escape. Not every spectator, it is true; for as in some mysticisms, not all human beings will gain access to the soul, nor to the necessary state of mind, which requires the contemplation.Francisca, the orphan, like her parents, seems to have chosen isolation, not because she prefers it, but because it is the only thing she knows. What she has learned from her mother, in this kind of universe of American Gothic, German expressionism and Portuguese melodrama, are not only the skills of a butcher or a surgeon on the battlefield; but also the compassion of all who must work with the flesh. For Francisca's eyes there is no evil; there are only accidents and chances, and there is also no joy in revenge, not even in crime. Just as you have to sew an open wound, they are only things that sometimes, sometimes a lifetime, must be done. And in this fatalism (fado or destiny in Portuguese), which is within the same beings and not outside, it is not the insensitivity towards hurt and pain, neither its frozen glance, but its intense desire not to be alone, which in the end will condemn Francisca to an implacable solitude, and to a new exile: not from the land on the other side of the ocean, like that of her mother, but of all humanity.