Overview
- Leïla Bekhti stars as Esther, a Moroccan-origin Parisian mother devoted to her son Roland, who is born with a clubfoot.
- Directed by Ken Scott, the film follows Roland into adulthood and threads his lifelong attachment to singer Sylvie Vartan’s music.
- Frankfurter Rundschau highlights Vartan’s appearance as herself and describes the approach as a fan-shaped biopic.
- Cicero Online praises the subject’s emotional pull but criticizes the execution as predictable and overly sentimental.
- The 104-minute French release is being promoted by Neue Visionen and is known internationally as Once Upon My Mother.