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Mammoth (2009)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Nov 24, 2009
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Limited Release: Nov 20, 2009; Rated: Unrated; Length: 126 Minutes; With: Gael García Bernal and Michelle Williams

PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal play a married couple in Mammoth | Mammoth, Gael García Bernal, ...
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PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal play a married couple in Mammoth

In Mammoth, his first English-language feature, the Swedish director Lukas Moodysson (Lilya 4-Ever) tries for a Babel-like global-sociological layer cake, with mixed results. Michelle Williams plays a New York surgeon whose daughter spends most of her quality time with a saintly Filipino nanny (Marife Necesito), who has two kids back home. Gael García Bernal is Williams' Web-mogul 
husband, who meets the world's friendliest teenage prostitute while in Bangkok. The movie is at once intimate and (in its softhearted way) preachy. B-

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Originally posted Nov 24, 2009 Published in issue #1078 Dec 04, 2009 Order article reprints

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