Return to my mother: the great success of Alexandra Lamy

This comedy by Eric Lavaine, also starring Josiane Balasko, attracted more than 2 million spectators to the cinema in 2016.

Josiane Balasko will be competing with herself tonight on television. While Canal + will broadcast encrypted Hands of goldofIsabelle Mergault (I find you very beautiful, Finally widowed), TMC will offer a great success: Back to my mother.

The pitch? “Would you like to return to live with your parents? At 40, Stéphanie is forced to return to live with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms: to her the joys of the overheated apartment, of Francis Cabrel on repeat, of parts of wild Scrabble and precious motherly advice on how to sit at the table and lead your life… Everyone will have to show infinite patience to endure this new life together. And when the rest of the siblings arrive for a dinner , settling of scores and family secrets will be unleashed in the most exhilarating way. But there are salutary explosions. Welcome to a high-risk universe: the family!”

This film by Eric Lavaine (H, Incognito…) is worn by two very popular actresses: the star of Tannedtherefore, but also Alexandra Lamyex-heroine ofA boy a girl. The flow went so well between the latter and the director that they quickly teamed up again to Spoiled for choicebut with less success: around 400,000 entries in 2017 compared to 2.2 million for Back to my mother !

This film is also in Alexandra Lamy’s top 5:

1. Brice from Nice recorded 4.4 million admissions in 2005
2. Alibi.com 2 recorded 4.2 million admissions in 2023
3. Everyone standing recorded 2.4 million admissions in 2018
4. The unfaithful recorded 2.3 million admissions in 2012
5. Back to my mother recorded 2.2 million admissions in 2016

Alexandra Lamy: Return to Eric Lavaine

Josiane Balasko and Eric Lavaine then teamed up again to the following, A visit to my daughter. This time, it is with Carole (Mathilde Seigner), Stéphanie’s sister, and her husband Alain (Jérôme Commandeur) that the mother is going to leave because of work in her apartment. The couple being in the middle of therapy, the timing seems bad…

A visit to my daughter was seen by 400,000 curious people in 2021 at the cinema.

Trailer for Back to my mother :

C’est la vie, with Josiane Bakasko and Léa Drucker, a subtle and burlesque comedy (review)