- Country: Czech Republic
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 2003-01-15
- Director: Jan Nemec
- Writers: Jan Nemec
- Language: Czech
- Stars: Karel Roden , Marta Kubisová , Jan Nemec , Zuzana Stivínová
- Runtime: 69 min
- Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
- AKA: Nocne rozmowy z matką (Poland) , Nocní hovory s matkou (Czech Republic) , Late Night Talks with Mother , Nocní hovory s matkou
- Plot: When an auteur makes a film that is so unbridled of sense and style, that cries of childlike yearning for attention (as is fathomed when an infant cries for its mother's breast), the result might simply stultify the whole. In this case, like an inverse Gestalt analysis, the whole is much less than the sum of its parts. In terms of a forlorn requiem for his mother, some parts adhere together, such as the poetic remnants of his mother's disdain for him, or Karel's recollections of her. Some parts, I'm certain, as exemplified through his "eye" camera, would probably even make his mother dizzy with boredom, and prompt us for the >> button. As such, I still don't know who his mother was, and, additionally, I also realize that a person can be this narcissistic (at the expense of the viewer), as this should have been a personal home video, not a public one. Every artist longs for love, and every artist should not spread his art for just one person, and not everyone. But when it is made for one's self, in this case, it becomes nothing more than something you would see in a first year, third rate creative film classroom.
- IMDB:tt0247584
Late Night Talks with Mother Cast · · · ALL
Jan Nemec
Director
Karel Roden
(voice)
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
Jan Nemec
Jan Němec
Zuzana Stivínová
Mother
Marta Kubisová
Marta Kubišová
Pavel Landovský
Pavel Landovský
Jirí Stivín
Jiří Stivín