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French writer-director Leonor Serraille follows (2018) with a novelistic immigration drama. Spanning some two decades, Serraille’s saga explores the experiences of a single mother, Rose (a vivid performance from Annabelle Lengronne), and her two young sons, Jean and Ernest, after they arrive in France from the Ivory Coast in 1989. Split into three chapters, with each one offering the perspective of a different character, Mother and Son astutely observes how, over time, individual identities and intra-family relationships are impacted in the struggle to belong in French society.