Review of Our Mother's House (1967) by Allan C — 12 Nov 2016
Director Jack Clayton is an interesting case. He's a filmmaker who made films for over four decades, but only has seven films to his credit as director. Some of his most well known are his adaptation of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw," re-titled "The Innocents" and his adaptation of the Ray Bradbury short story "Something Wicked This Way Comes.
" Those two and this film all share rather macabre elements of childhood. This film revolves around a family of several children who's mother dies and then children decide to hide her body and just tell everyone their mother is ill so that they are not split apart by child welfare.
It's a rather heartbreaking story and does an excellent job capturing the child's perspective on this tragic situation. It's not as edgy as "The Cement Garden" and not as glib as "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead," but is an intelligent and fascinating story.
This review of Our Mother's House (1967) was written by Allan C on 12 Nov 2016.
Our Mother's House has generally received very positive reviews.
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