DVD Release: I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive

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DVD Release Date: Jan. 3, 2012
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Vincent Rottiers deals with the pain in I'm Glad That My Mother Is Alive.

Co-directors Claude Miller (The Little Thief, Alias Betty) and his son Nathan Miller explore childhood trauma and its consequences on adult life in the 2009 French drama film I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive.

Based on a true story, the movie follows the life of Thomas (Vincent Rottiers), a troubled teenager who was given up for adoption as a toddler and is now obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her and discovers that she is single, has a small child and lives in a nearby suburb. Traumatized by years of emptiness and longing for his mother, he introduces himself and starts an ambiguous relationship with her (part courtship, part obsession) that slowly drives him to an act of madness.

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive was released to one theater in the U.S. in September 2011 following theatrical and film festival playdates in Europe and Brazil. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

On DVD, the unrated film is presented in French with English subtitles.

Here’s the trailer:

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.