Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes t... Read allDiane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha (Moka) color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Storyline
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- TriviaThis movie is a nearly copycat of another film: La volante, released just one year earlier, and also with Nathalie Baye in the opposite role, the one played here by Emmanuelle Devos.
- Quotes
Diane Roy, alias Hélène: The boy you ran over in Lausanne... That was my son...
- SoundtracksAnimals (remastered remix)
Written by Yves Deruyter, Roel Butzen & Marc Luyten
Performed by Yves Deruyter
Couple of comments: the (French) tag line of the movie is "What would you have done?", and that boils it down to the movie's essence: if your child had died in a hit-and-run and the police isn't doing enough to locate the perpetrators, what would you as a parent do? Writer-director Frédéric Mermoud adds a couple of parallel stories but in the end they are nothing more than a side bar to the movie. The movie is cast as a "thriller drama", but it is more drama (of the psychological kind) than it is a thriller. I was intrigued to see this for no other reason than seeing legendary French actress Natalie Baye, now a crisp 69 years young (and looking at least 10 years younger than that), here in the role of the blonde woman who may or may not have been the driver of the hit-and-run vehicle. The lead role of Diane is portrayed by Emmanuelle Devos. The movie was filmed on location and if you've been to the Lake Geneva area, you know that is a major plus. Bottom line: this was a pleasant film, but otherwise nothing earth-shattering or unique, featuring good acting performances and great scenery.
"Moka" opened this past weekend out of the blue and without pre-release hype or advertising at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati. The Monday early evening screening where I saw this at was not attended well, but that is not surprising for a week day evening. If you are in the mood for a good 9without being revolutionary) foreign film, starring one of France's legendary stars, you cannot go wrong with this, be it in the theater (unlikely at this point), on VOD or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray.
- paul-allaer
- Sep 18, 2017
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- Countries of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- For My Son
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $129,547
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,094
- Jun 18, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $1,493,067
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2,39:1
- 2.39 : 1
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