Overview

• My Mother’s Wedding marks Kristin Scott Thomas’s debut as a director and co-writer of a semi-autobiographical drama inspired by her loss of two Navy–pilot fathers in childhood.
• Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham portray three sisters who reunite in the English countryside for their twice-widowed mother’s third wedding and confront long-buried grief.
• Thomas has confirmed that the vivid childhood flashbacks experienced by Johansson’s character draw directly from her exact memories, even as the film takes broader artistic liberties.
• The film employs handcrafted pencil-sketch animations to visualize memory sequences, adding a subjective lens to the emotional narrative.
• Since its nationwide debut on August 8, critics have lauded the cast’s performances and emotional authenticity but pointed to uneven pacing, tonal inconsistencies and an out-of-sync comedic subplot.