Review of 'Back home with my daughter' (2021): Repeat, repeat, repeat

‘Vuelta a casa de mi madre’ cost 8.5 million euros and grossed around double at the French box office; This argument justifies the sequel to a comedy whose only discovery was to bring Josiane Balasko and Mathilde Seigner together on one screen. Eric Lavaine repeats in the direction, Lavaine himself and Héctor Cabello Reyes repeat as scriptwriters, the characters repeat and inevitably the back and forth dynamics of the original are traced, although this time there is no trace of comments on the socioeconomic crisis that motivate the forced cohabitation of the protagonists.

Some plays in the mother’s house are the pretext used by the script to make the nosy matriarch played by Josiane Balasko and a couple in the midst of a marital crisis coexist under the same roof. However, it is difficult for Lavaine to get the film into rhythm, in part because he does not know how to articulate the filler footage that introduces the scenes of domestic manners from which 99% of the warm smiles hang that are invited by a staging that It is pure desktop television: sets illuminated by the light of three suns, actors and actresses in their brands, and an unstressed and functional montage that if it breathes is because Balasko has plenty of tables to make a film digestible that the second day already begins to smell bad.