Month of the Doc - Screening of the documentary A Deep Look at Mothers

Place Charles de Gaulle

What is it like to become a mother? What are the different emotions that intertwine with the arrival of a child? They read in the birth notices: “We have the immense joy…” and they mostly expected that: joy. Five women who do not recognize themselves in the dominant and media narrative testify to their ambivalent experiences, of their metamorphoses, of their births to themselves, and to the world, as mothers. Five women tell their story to a sixth, who does not know what she wants. With courage, humor and insight, they speak up to face an emptiness co…