“Mothering Sunday” is yet another period piece with great performances, beautiful cinematography, posh costumes, and has an excellent score to accompany it. Still, it’s so self-important and ‘elegantly’ contrived that it feels hollow and unenjoyable.

| Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2024

Mothering Sunday is not a heavy-duty tearjerker, but a tidy, lamentable story of fleeting love amongst social constraints.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2023

The unusual directorial stylings of filmmaker Eva Husson may get on the nerves of some viewers, but her examination of fading memories and long-lasting grief is undeniably effective.

| Sep 8, 2022

Directed by Eva Husson, based on the book of the same name by Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday, is and idyllic film that tells the story of a life stamped by the first love.“[Full Review in Spanish]”

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2022

A rigid movie without much flavor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 11, 2022

A yearning, sultry and textured splash of celluloid.

| Jun 24, 2022

Narrated by the insightful young maid, the film works as a heritage film... but fizzles when it does away with the romance, the class differences, and the existential suffocation of two families in a lush English paradise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

The film as a whole succeeds superbly both in its evocation of a sensual, erotic love affair and in its treatment of the bereaved families who, despite their elevated place in society, can never replace all that they’ve lost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2022

Mothering Sunday is an above average drama that speaks to the lingering impact of love and tragedy.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 8, 2022

O’Connor is an actor who always seems to be regarding life with a raised eyebrow and the rapport between him and Young turns them into loving co-conspirators meditating on the fluidity of time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2022

The film looks great, with an emphasis on close-ups, drifting cameras and follow focus...Still, this is Odessa Young’s film, and easily her most impressive performance so far. In one key moment she vents without making any noise. A scene for the showreel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2022

There’s a certain artificiality to how Mothering Sunday presents itself, never quite moving beyond a dramatic perspective that earns the attention the story should deserve.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2022

Underneath all its impressive production design, evocative cinematography and simply gorgeous costuming, this packs a surprisingly powerful emotional punch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2022

Profoundly well-written. beautifully crafted and brilliantly performed, Eva Huson’s steamy and feminist epic drama about post-WWI British society is a very welcome invitation to finely crafted, socially conscious escapism.

| May 20, 2022

Husson is working on a very special wavelength here, attuned to the minutest details of sensation and how sense memory can take us on a journey.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

Although it does not deliver a strong pay-off, it's still an intriguing experience, especially to enjoy the detailed way that Husson transports us to that point and space in the world, and the work of his cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2022

Eva Husson makes a memorable impression with her directorial choices here and the young cast, especially Odessa Young, more than holds their own against veterans Firth and Colman.

| Apr 25, 2022

Despite a committed cast and an elegant production, "Mothering Sunday" is one of those films you might respect but are likely to remain unmoved by.

| Original Score: C | Apr 23, 2022

Mothering Day often comes across with the same inertness as its stiff, upper crust characters.

| Apr 22, 2022

"Mothering Sunday" doesnt always work ... but when it does, when Jane tiptoes naked through a manor house to gather every sensation she can, the movie achieves a graceful kind of power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2022