My Mother's Castle

Yves Robert's MY MOTHER'S CASTLE picks up at the exact moment--two young boys shivering in a mountain cave inhabited by a hoot owl--where MY FATHER'S GLORY left off. While the sequel isn't quite the equal of the original installment, it is a sheer delight, nonetheless.

As the film opens, pre-teen Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) is still enjoying his summer in the mountains with his newfound friend, the shepherd boy Lili (Joris Molinas). Grim reality sets in when Marcel returns from the mountain top to be reminded by his father Joseph (Philippe Caubere), a schoolteacher in Marseilles, and his exquisitely beautiful mother, Augustine (Natalie Roussel), that it's time to r...