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Jeunes Mères (2025)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,67 42 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Alternative titles: The Young Mother's Home / La Maison Maternelle / Maternal Home / Young Mothers

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Starst: Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek and Elsa Houben

IMDb score: 7,0 (1.420)

Releasedate: 23 May 2025

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Jeunes Mères plot

Jessica, Perla, Julie, Naïma and Ariane are young mothers. Each of them has a difficult childhood and has found shelter in a shelter. Now they struggle to give themselves and their offspring a better life.

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J. Clouseau

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Seen yesterday in avant-première at the cinema Lumière in Mechelen, in the company of the Dardenne brothers. The inseparable directors initially wanted to make a film about one young mother, but when they documented themselves in a shelter for homeless underage mothers in Liège, they were so overwhelmed by the stories that are present there, that Jeunes Mères ultimately has five intersecting storylines.

Of the five, Naïma is only briefly mentioned and Julie's story is a little less memorable. But that is more due to the extent to which the characters of Jessica, Perla and Ariane get under your skin and don't let go. Their dialogues are razor-sharp, a lot happens in their search for a home and a future and once again the Dardennes show their nose for acting talent. Like Jérémie Renier in La promesse and the lamented and missed Emilie Dequenne in Rosetta, it is once again very young actors who carry the entire film. Babette Verbeek, Lucie Laruelle, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, remember those names.

Where I often feel in social-realist films like this that the camera following the characters and the abrupt scene transitions reduce the viewer to an observer instead of a participant, that is not the case here: from the first images you are in the middle of the action and you want to follow the young mothers closely, all the way to the end. However, five storylines, four of which are fully developed, also means four denouements, and that is where the film only shows its first weakness. At the last denouement you think 'Ah yes, that's right, this had to happen too, they had to do something with this ending too.' And yet, when the screen finally goes black, you continue to think about these young mothers and their search for a certain light in their lives.

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mrklm

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The Dardenne brothers chose five teenagers with no parenting experience for the lead roles and had them care for several babies in preparation for this portrait of five teenage mothers who, due to a lack of support or a toxic home environment, end up in a shelter for young (expectant) mothers. The interactions with the babies are completely authentic, as are the various situations the girls must learn to navigate. It feels like a documentary, is excellently acted throughout, and although there is hope on the horizon, the Dardennes don't offer easy solutions.

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De filosoof

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As we've come to expect from the Dardenne brothers, the film feels like a documentary, but its strength lies in the fact that it's not a documentary that keeps us at a distance and simply tells us what's going on: the well-acted film immediately plunges us into the lives of several teenage mothers sharing a shelter. As expected, the girls themselves had a rough start—many had underage mothers, were then abandoned, and now have alcohol and/or drug problems—and now face the choice of whether or not to keep their child. The film succeeds in fully capturing the emotions, fears, and insecurities of the girls as they struggle under pressure from their environment (from mothers to drug dealers) or their past (the film beautifully demonstrates that present choices are often shaped by past experiences), or even see their future plans shattered when their underage father runs away. The film avoids overdramatization – it even has a cheerful and hopeful ending – which makes everything feel real and makes you empathize even more: even the most militant baby hater will be moved to tears by this exceptionally powerful and moving film about children who are already having to make the most difficult decision of their lives.

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