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Mother of Tears

April 16, 2023

Mother of Tears (Italian: La Terza madre, literally The Third Mother) is a 2007 supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento, and starring Asia Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Moran Atias, Udo Kier and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. The film has also been billed in English-speaking media as Mater Lachrymarum, The Third Mother (English translation of the film's original Italian title) and Mother of Tears: The Third Mother.

Mother of Tears
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDario Argento
Screenplay by
Story byDario Argento
Based onSuspiria de Profundis
by Thomas De Quincey
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFrederic Fasano
Edited byWalter Fasano
Music byClaudio Simonetti
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Medusa Distribuzione (Italy)
  • Myriad Pictures (United States)
Release dates
Running time
102 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • United States
Languages
  • English
  • Italian
Budget$3.5 million
Box office$3.1 million[1]

Written by Argento, Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, the film is the concluding installment of Argento's supernatural horror trilogy The Three Mothers, preceded by Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). The film depicts the confrontation with the final "Mother" witch, known as Mater Lachrymarum.

Plot

The film begins with members of the Catholic Church lead by Monsignor Brusca (Franco Leo) digging up the body of a 19th-century church official, whose casket has a box-shaped urn chained to it. Inside the box they discover artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum (Moran Atias), the last surviving member of the Three Mothers; an ancient trio of powerful black magic witches. In particular, the box contains a magic tunic that, when worn by Mater Lachrymarum, increases her powers significantly.

The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome, where Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento), an American studying art restoration, works. Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce (Adam James), a single father who is away from the museum that night. With help from the assistant curator Giselle (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni), Sarah opens the box and finds the tunic, a dagger, and three statues representing the three witches. Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts, the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum. Sarah arrives too late to save her boss (who is being disembowelled by the monsters) and starts to flee the museum.

Unfortunately, she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum's familiar (a baboon) and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum. Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son, Paul. Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that, shortly after mailing the urn to him, he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma. An assistant of the priest, Father Milesi (Tommaso Banfi) gives Michael a piece of paper, which the Cardinal was writing on before collapsing. On it is scrawled the name "Mater Lachrymarum". Michael is observed by a pair of witches while leaving the hospital.

Back in Rome, chaos descends as a wave of mass suicides, murder and violence engulfs the city. Sarah continues her own research only to be summoned by Michael to his apartment. The witches have kidnapped his young son and won't return the boy to him unless he stops his investigation. Sarah begs him to call the police (who are tailing Sarah, ever since the murder at the museum) but Michael refuses to and instead opts to visit a local priest who is a trained exorcist. This goes badly for Michael; the two witches see him and he is soon captured and murdered, along with his son, whose body is cannibalized by the rapidly expanding coven. However, before he is killed, Michael calls Sarah and begs for her to come and help him. As she makes her way through a crowded train station, Sarah is spotted by a gang of witches who, like so many other witches, have arrived in Rome in order to pledge their loyalty to Mater Lachrymarum. Pursued by the witches and the police, the disembodied voice from before instructs Sarah on how to magically make herself invisible. She uses this to avoid a police detective, though she is forced to kill a witch, Katerina, who catches and corners her on the train.

At the priest's home, Sarah meets Marta, a fellow white witch and friend of Sarah's deceased mother. Realizing that Sarah's mother is the voice guiding her, Marta reveals details to Sarah about her parents. Her mother was a powerful white witch who dared to challenge and severely wound Mater Suspiriorum, the eldest and wisest of the Three Mothers. In response to this, Suspiriorum caused the fatal car crash that killed Sarah's parents. Though Mater Suspiriorum and her sister Mater Tenebrarum are now dead, their sibling Mater Lachrymarum has emerged from the shadows to bring about the second age of magic, with the fall of Rome as her coming-out party. They talk to the priest, only for him to be killed by one of his patients before he can give the two a copy of a book that would explain Mater Lachrymarum's backstory.

Escaping back to the city, Sarah goes to her own home but finds Mater Lachrymarum's goons waiting for her. She heads to Marta's house, but once again Mater Lachrymarum's minions strike and Marta and her lesbian lover are murdered. Fleeing, Sarah spots Michael, who takes her back to his apartment. Unfortunately, Sarah soon realizes that Michael is dead and that Mater Lachrymarum is animating his body in an attempt to kill her. As she burns her lover's still-animate body, the ghost of her mother intervenes one final time to grab Michael and banish him (and possibly herself) to Hell.

Sarah locates a powerful alchemist, whom Marta mentioned as her only hope to learn how to fight Mater Lachrymarum. After being briefly paralyzed by the alchemist (so that he could perform a test on her to see if she was a white witch or an evil witch), the alchemist gives Sarah the only help he has in locating Mater Lachrymarum's dwelling. Sarah is given a copy of "The Three Mothers" to read, and from this (and from following a group of witches) Sarah finds Mater Lachrymarum's lair; a now run-down and disrepaired mansion. At this point, she is joined by Detective Enzo Marki, one of the police officers hunting her, and the two go into the catacombs to find Mater Lachrymarum. However, the two become separated, and Enzo is tortured alongside the alchemist and his assistant, who dies after his arm is chopped off by one of Mater Lachrymarum's minions. Sarah is caught and brought before Mater Lachrymarum, who offers Sarah up to her cannibal followers. Sarah, having healed Enzo's wounds, uses a spear to pull the cloak off Mater Lachrymarum and tosses it into a nearby fire. This causes the mansion to collapse as a pillar falls and impales Mater Lachrymarum. With the Mother's followers crushed as the cave collapses, Sarah and Enzo laugh in horror and shock upon reaching the surface, as they realize that the threat of the Three Mothers has been defeated once and for all.

Cast

Production

Pre-production

The Three Mothers trilogy

Main article: The Three Mothers

Mother of Tears is the final film in Argento's trilogy known as The Three Mothers. The trilogy is loosely based on characters from "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow", a section of Thomas De Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis. The prose poem outlines the existence of three women that are the personification of sorrow: Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum and Mater Tenebrarum. Argento and Daria Nicolodi recast De Quincey's Three Sorrows as three malevolent witches who rule the world with tears, sighs and shadows. When released in 1977, the first film, Suspiria, introduced the major stylistic elements of the series, including the bold use of primary colors and elaborate setpieces for each murder. The sequel, Inferno, developed the overarching plot continuities concerning the three central witches when released in 1980.

Nicolodi script (1980s)

As early as 1984, Daria Nicolodi asserted in an interview with Fangoria – alongside Argento – that they had "finished the script for the third [film] but there are a few things we are still working on to perfect the project, a couple of special effects and locations, that sort of thing."[2] Although Nicolodi mentioned her version of the script again in an interview for Alan Jones' book, Profondo Argento: The Man, the Myths and the Magic, it was not used in whole or part for Mother of Tears.

Argento script (2003/4)

On 29 November 2003, at the Trieste Science Plus Fiction Festival in Northern Italy, Argento revealed that he hoped to start filming The Third Mother in August 2004 and was currently working on the script.[3] Thematically it concerned "mysticism, alchemy, terrorism and Gnosticism [...]. So many people were tortured because the Church said Gnosticism was heresy, and that will be the starting point for the story. [...] It has been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind [...] and it has felt surprisingly good to go back and explore the whole story from a retrospective point of view."[3] The film was to be set in Rome and begin with Mater Lachrymarum in the Middle Ages.[3] Argento originally hoped to cast a Russian model in the role of Mater Lachrymarum.[3] (He later chose Israeli actress Moran Atias.[4]) Argento also said that a Hollywood studio might finance the film.[3]

Anderson and Gierasch script (2005/6)

In late 2005, Argento travelled to the North of Europe to begin conceptual work on The Third Mother.[5] Soon after, it was announced that Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch had been asked by Argento to help him write the film's script. "When we got there [Rome,] Dario had already done his own pass on the treatment, and we spent three weeks holed up in an apartment, meeting with Dario, visiting the catacombs, and getting the first draft done." Around this time, Fangoria reported that the film would be entitled Mater Lachrymarum.[6]

The script for The Third Mother was still being refined in February 2006, with Anderson and Gierasch having composed a first draft which Argento then revised.[7] This early script began immediately after Inferno, with a witch who survived the destruction of Mater Tenebrarum's home watching a detective (Ennio Fantastichini) investigating a series of murders at a university.[8] Other tentative cast members were Chiara Caselli as a psychiatrist, Max von Sydow as a mysterious university professor, and Giordano Petri as a young investigator who takes the case when Fantastichini's character is killed.[8] At this point, shooting was set to begin in late spring of the same year and was to be released between November 2006 and January 2007.[7] However, in early 2006 rumors circulated that Argento had dismissed Anderson and Gierasch after being displeased with their script. French horror magazine L'Écran Fantastique reported that Argento alone would receive a screenwriting credit. On the tenth of March it was announced that shooting The Third Mother would be delayed until September.[9] In mid-April it was announced that Argento would return to Italy in June to immediately begin filming The Third Mother, which would be "a big budget feature, produced by Medusa along with a major American company [Myriad]."[10] In May 2006 the title Mother of Tears surfaced as a possible name for the film. According to journalist Alan Jones, this title "was never in the running as far as Dario was concerned. That was the title the originally contacted American sales agent Myriad wanted for international distribution."[4] In the same month, rumors from the Cannes Film Festival linked actress Sienna Miller to the film's lead female role.[11] Also at Cannes, Medusa's CEO Giampaolo Letta was quoted by Anderson and Gierasch as saying "This is going to be vintage Argento. Pretty strong stuff."[12] In July it was revealed that The Third Mother had been delayed yet again until "next November or later" and that Argento's daughter, Asia, had been cast in the film.[13]

Filming

 
Primary filming in Rome on 25 October 2006. In this scene, a mother throws her baby from a bridge in a fit of aberration brought on by the return of the Third Mother

In mid October 2006, Gierasch revealed that The Third Mother would finally begin filming later in the month.[14] Primary filming occurred in Rome, although some parts were filmed in Turin and at the studios of Cinecittà at Terni.[15]

Post-production

The editing of Mother of Tears was more or less finished by March 2007.[16] Dubbing the soundtrack into the Italian and English language versions of the film was finished on 5 April 2007.[15]

The film's digital effects were created by Lee Wilson and Sergio Stivaletti.[15] According to the director of photography, Frederic Fasano, the film will begin with a subdued cool color palette that will segue to red as the film progresses.[4]

The Italian distributor of Mother of Tears, Medusa Film, believed the film was too violent and requested it to be edited.[17] Medusa's main objection is to "the depiction of perverse sex in the witch gathering satanic scenes and one cannibal killing of a major character."[18] Argento was asked to re-edit the film to make it more mainstream.[18] It was confirmed on 28 May 2007 that the film would receive a rating of 14 in Italy, necessitating the removal of "all hardcore gore" which would later "be re-instated for the dvd release".[19]

Promotion

Promotion of Mother of Tears before Cannes 2007 was limited. Several behind-the-scenes photographs surfaced, the first official one at Fangoria on 27 November 2006.[20] A short, eighteen-second preview of The Third Mother was released on 18 December 2006 at Cinecitta.com.[21] Several black-and-white photographs of the filming were published on 19 January 2007 in the book Dario Argento et le cinéma by Bernard Joisten.[22] In May 2007, just before the event at Cannes, a promotional poster for The Third Mother was featured on the cover of Variety magazine's digital edition. Mother of Tears premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2007, just moments before midnight and Argento's 67th birthday (on the 7th).[23] The film debuted in Italy on 24 October 2007 at the Rome Film Festival.[24] Its Italian wide release occurred on 31 October 2007, Halloween.[17] In the United States, Myriad Pictures released the film uncut in select cities in June 2008.[25]

Cannes 2007

The Cannes Film Festival requested that The Third Mother be ready in time for consideration as a 2007 competition contender.[4] However, the film was not screened in its entirety at the festival. On 17 May 2007 at 9:30 am Myriad premiered 20 minutes of footage from the film, consisting of eight lengthy scenes, to a packed audience.[26] The preview was preceded by a credit roll and disclaimer that warned of graphic violence.[26] The eight scenes included: the complete beginning to the point where Asia opens the Mother of Tears urn, the arrival of several demons, Daria Nicolodi's "powder puff" scene, a lesbian death scene, Udo Kier's major scene, Asia running through the streets of Rome, Adam James' major scene, and the entrance of Mater Lachrymarum.[26] According to reporter Alan Jones the audiences' reaction was mixed: the acting quality varied and the script contained too much exposition, but the cinematography was beautiful.[26]

Post-Cannes

The day after the Cannes screening, on 18 May at 3:45 pm, co-scripter Jace Anderson and actress Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni were on The Third Mother discussion panel at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors convention on the West Coast.[27] On 27 May, a second promotional poster – featuring an eye weeping tears of blood – surfaced on the internet bearing only the title Mother of Tears.[28] In early June, a teaser trailer for The Third Mother was attached to Grindhouse in Italy. Camera-recorded copies of the trailer surfaced soon afterward on the internet. The Cannes promo reel was also screened during Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors East Coast convention in Secaucus, New Jersey on 1 July at 12:15 pm[29] Cataldi-Tassoni introduced the footage.[29] Pirated stills and audio from the preview surfaced the same day on the forum of the Dario Argento fansite DarkDreams.org.[30] In late August, an American trailer for the film was screened at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear.

US release

The film had its US premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival on 25 April 2008. This was followed by a limited theatrical run in June courtesy of Myriad Pictures and a DVD release by The Weinstein Company via Dimension Extreme DVDs on 23 September 2008.

Response

Critical reaction

Critical response was mixed, although many reviewers felt the film, despite its flaws, was entertaining. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 49% approval rating based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's consensus reads, "As excessive and ketchup laden as predecessors Suspiria and Inferno, Dario Argento's Mother of Tears completes the trilogy with the same baroque grandeur and soggy 1970s sensibilities."[31] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 52 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[32] The concluding film of The Three Mothers trilogy provided some reviewers with an opportunity to reflect on Argento's career as a whole, and parallels were often drawn between Mother of Tears and Argento's films from the 1970s and 1980s.

Variety's Dennis Harvey wrote "This hectic pileup of supernatural nonsense is a treasure trove of seemingly unintentional hilarity...this "Mother" is a cheesy, breathless future camp classic."[33] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com opined that "Mother of Tears is depraved, bloody and unrepentantly exploitive, and the plot makes virtually no sense—it's the sort of movie nobody, save Argento himself, is crazy enough to make these days. It's also so full of life that it dwarfs contemporary horror pictures of the Saw and Hostel variety."[34] Jim Ridley in The Village Voice felt the film was further evidence of the declining quality of a once great director's abilities, stating that "for people who revere the horror maestro's vital work—roughly the period between his debut, 1970's proto–De Palma giallo The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and his 1990 segment of the anthology film Two Evil Eyes — it's painful to watch the Hieronymus Bosch of '70s horror sink this low...If you believe someone of Dario Argento's proven talent would make a movie so deliberately sucky, feel free to join in."[35] Maitland McDonagh hated the film, describing it as "sadly lacking in the baroque atmosphere and visual aesthetic that elevated Argento above the horror hacks—it's flatly lit, indifferently staged, coarsely violent and brutally straightforward. The English-language dubbing is the final indignity: even the voices are ugly."[36]

Writing in The New York Times, Nathan Lee described the film as "...silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime...[I]t may be the most entertaining film of [Argento's] career...It's true that The Mother of Tears, strictly as visual storytelling, suffers by comparison with the first and second Mother movies, or one of Mr. Argento's better baroque thrillers, like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. But it does something as well as, if not better than, anything in his oeuvre: it goes all the way."[37] Scooter McCrae of Fangoria was extremely enthusiastic about the film, and said that "Mother of Tears is a great movie, and well worth the wait. Does it have flaws? Oh yeah, but so do Tenebrae, Phenomena, Suspiria and Inferno, and they're now all part of the accepted canon of classic Argento cinema."[38] Cinefantastique's Steve Biodrowski also felt the film was worthy of praise, noting that "the experience of watching Mother of Tears is like a delirious descent into primordial chaos, where the powers of darkness hold sway...As a long-awaited coda to Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy, [it] may not be exactly what was expected, but it is perfectly satisfying resolution...."[39]

Argento has noted that he is dismissive of critical reaction, saying that "the critics don't understand very well. But critics are not important – absolutely not important. Because now audiences don't believe anymore in critics. Many years ago critics wrote long articles about films. Now in seven lines they are finished: 'The story is this. The actor is this. The color is good.'"[40]

Box office performance

In Italy, La Terza madre generated $827,000 in two days at 273 theaters. By the end of its opening week in 303 theaters it had amassed $1,917,934 and took the 4th spot at the Italian box office. To date it has taken 2,077,000 Euros ($3,114,070).[citation needed] During its first week of limited theatrical release in the United States, Mother of Tears grossed $19,418 at seven theaters, for a per theater gross of $2,774, taking 55th place on Variety's weekly box office chart.[25]

Soundtrack

Claudio Simonetti composed the soundtrack for Mother of Tears, which was completed in early April 2007 after four months of work.[15] He chose a classical style with Gothic influences present in many of the choruses. Simonetti described the score as "very different" from his previous work due to the subject matter of the film.[15] The music was influenced by his own work for Argento's Masters of Horror episodes ("Jenifer" and "Pelts") as well as composers such as Carl Orff, Jerry Goldsmith, and Bernard Herrmann (among others).[15] The score also incorporates electronic music and influences from Simonetti's earlier work on Argento films, such as Suspiria and Phenomena.[15]

The piece at the end of Simonetti's "Mater Lachrimarum" is called "Dulcis in Fondo" and was performed by his heavy metal band, Daemonia.[15] Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth recorded a song with Simonetti, Mater Lacrimarum, for the soundtrack of the film.[41]

The soundtrack was recorded in the Acquario Studio of Castelnuovo in Porto-Roma. The symphonic orchestra parts were performed by the Orchestra D.I.M.I. The choral parts were performed by the Nova Lyrica chorus in February 2007.[42] Both were recorded in Lead Studios in Rome with the help of sound-man Giuseppe Ranieri. Filmmakers finished dubbing the soundtrack into the film on 5 April 2007.[15] At the preview during the Cannes Film Festival, journalist Alan Jones described Simonetti's score as an "unqualified success".[26]

The soundtrack was released around the same time as the film's Italian wide release (31 October 2007) by Edel Music.[43]

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Mother of Tears news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Mother of Tears Italian La Terza madre literally The Third Mother is a 2007 supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento Daria Nicolodi Moran Atias Udo Kier and Coralina Cataldi Tassoni The film has also been billed in English speaking media as Mater Lachrymarum The Third Mother English translation of the film s original Italian title and Mother of Tears The Third Mother Mother of TearsTheatrical release posterDirected byDario ArgentoScreenplay byDario Argento Jace Anderson Adam GieraschStory byDario ArgentoBased onSuspiria de Profundisby Thomas De QuinceyProduced byClaudio Argento Dario ArgentoStarringAsia Argento Cristian Solimeno Adam James Moran Atias Valeria Cavalli Philippe Leroy Daria Nicolodi Coralina Cataldi Tassoni Udo KierCinematographyFrederic FasanoEdited byWalter FasanoMusic byClaudio SimonettiProductioncompaniesMedusa Film Myriad Pictures Opera FilmDistributed byMedusa Distribuzione Italy Myriad Pictures United States Release dates6 September 2007 2007 09 06 Toronto International Film Festival 24 October 2007 2007 10 24 Italy 6 June 2008 2008 06 06 United States Running time102 minutesCountriesItaly United StatesLanguagesEnglish ItalianBudget 3 5 millionBox office 3 1 million 1 Written by Argento Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch the film is the concluding installment of Argento s supernatural horror trilogy The Three Mothers preceded by Suspiria 1977 and Inferno 1980 The film depicts the confrontation with the final Mother witch known as Mater Lachrymarum Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Pre production 3 1 1 The Three Mothers trilogy 3 1 2 Nicolodi script 1980s 3 1 3 Argento script 2003 4 3 1 4 Anderson and Gierasch script 2005 6 3 2 Filming 3 3 Post production 4 Promotion 4 1 Cannes 2007 4 2 Post Cannes 4 3 US release 5 Response 5 1 Critical reaction 5 2 Box office performance 6 Soundtrack 7 References 8 External linksPlot EditThe film begins with members of the Catholic Church lead by Monsignor Brusca Franco Leo digging up the body of a 19th century church official whose casket has a box shaped urn chained to it Inside the box they discover artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum Moran Atias the last surviving member of the Three Mothers an ancient trio of powerful black magic witches In particular the box contains a magic tunic that when worn by Mater Lachrymarum increases her powers significantly The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome where Sarah Mandy Asia Argento an American studying art restoration works Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce Adam James a single father who is away from the museum that night With help from the assistant curator Giselle Coralina Cataldi Tassoni Sarah opens the box and finds the tunic a dagger and three statues representing the three witches Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum Sarah arrives too late to save her boss who is being disembowelled by the monsters and starts to flee the museum Unfortunately she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum s familiar a baboon and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son Paul Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that shortly after mailing the urn to him he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma An assistant of the priest Father Milesi Tommaso Banfi gives Michael a piece of paper which the Cardinal was writing on before collapsing On it is scrawled the name Mater Lachrymarum Michael is observed by a pair of witches while leaving the hospital Back in Rome chaos descends as a wave of mass suicides murder and violence engulfs the city Sarah continues her own research only to be summoned by Michael to his apartment The witches have kidnapped his young son and won t return the boy to him unless he stops his investigation Sarah begs him to call the police who are tailing Sarah ever since the murder at the museum but Michael refuses to and instead opts to visit a local priest who is a trained exorcist This goes badly for Michael the two witches see him and he is soon captured and murdered along with his son whose body is cannibalized by the rapidly expanding coven However before he is killed Michael calls Sarah and begs for her to come and help him As she makes her way through a crowded train station Sarah is spotted by a gang of witches who like so many other witches have arrived in Rome in order to pledge their loyalty to Mater Lachrymarum Pursued by the witches and the police the disembodied voice from before instructs Sarah on how to magically make herself invisible She uses this to avoid a police detective though she is forced to kill a witch Katerina who catches and corners her on the train At the priest s home Sarah meets Marta a fellow white witch and friend of Sarah s deceased mother Realizing that Sarah s mother is the voice guiding her Marta reveals details to Sarah about her parents Her mother was a powerful white witch who dared to challenge and severely wound Mater Suspiriorum the eldest and wisest of the Three Mothers In response to this Suspiriorum caused the fatal car crash that killed Sarah s parents Though Mater Suspiriorum and her sister Mater Tenebrarum are now dead their sibling Mater Lachrymarum has emerged from the shadows to bring about the second age of magic with the fall of Rome as her coming out party They talk to the priest only for him to be killed by one of his patients before he can give the two a copy of a book that would explain Mater Lachrymarum s backstory Escaping back to the city Sarah goes to her own home but finds Mater Lachrymarum s goons waiting for her She heads to Marta s house but once again Mater Lachrymarum s minions strike and Marta and her lesbian lover are murdered Fleeing Sarah spots Michael who takes her back to his apartment Unfortunately Sarah soon realizes that Michael is dead and that Mater Lachrymarum is animating his body in an attempt to kill her As she burns her lover s still animate body the ghost of her mother intervenes one final time to grab Michael and banish him and possibly herself to Hell Sarah locates a powerful alchemist whom Marta mentioned as her only hope to learn how to fight Mater Lachrymarum After being briefly paralyzed by the alchemist so that he could perform a test on her to see if she was a white witch or an evil witch the alchemist gives Sarah the only help he has in locating Mater Lachrymarum s dwelling Sarah is given a copy of The Three Mothers to read and from this and from following a group of witches Sarah finds Mater Lachrymarum s lair a now run down and disrepaired mansion At this point she is joined by Detective Enzo Marki one of the police officers hunting her and the two go into the catacombs to find Mater Lachrymarum However the two become separated and Enzo is tortured alongside the alchemist and his assistant who dies after his arm is chopped off by one of Mater Lachrymarum s minions Sarah is caught and brought before Mater Lachrymarum who offers Sarah up to her cannibal followers Sarah having healed Enzo s wounds uses a spear to pull the cloak off Mater Lachrymarum and tosses it into a nearby fire This causes the mansion to collapse as a pillar falls and impales Mater Lachrymarum With the Mother s followers crushed as the cave collapses Sarah and Enzo laugh in horror and shock upon reaching the surface as they realize that the threat of the Three Mothers has been defeated once and for all Cast EditAsia Argento as Sarah Mandy Cristian Solimeno as Detective Enzo Marchi Daria Nicolodi as Elisa Mandy Udo Kier as Padre Johannes Moran Atias as Mater Lachrymarum Adam James as Michael Pierce Coralina Cataldi Tassoni as Giselle Philippe Leroy as Guglielmo De Witt Valeria Cavalli as Marta Clive Riche as Man in Overcoat Massimo Sarchielli as The Hobo Silvia Rubino as Elga Jun Ichikawa as Katerina Luca Pescatore as Paul PierceProduction EditPre production Edit The Three Mothers trilogy Edit Main article The Three Mothers Mother of Tears is the final film in Argento s trilogy known as The Three Mothers The trilogy is loosely based on characters from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow a section of Thomas De Quincey s Suspiria de Profundis The prose poem outlines the existence of three women that are the personification of sorrow Mater Lachrymarum Mater Suspiriorum and Mater Tenebrarum Argento and Daria Nicolodi recast De Quincey s Three Sorrows as three malevolent witches who rule the world with tears sighs and shadows When released in 1977 the first film Suspiria introduced the major stylistic elements of the series including the bold use of primary colors and elaborate setpieces for each murder The sequel Inferno developed the overarching plot continuities concerning the three central witches when released in 1980 Nicolodi script 1980s Edit As early as 1984 Daria Nicolodi asserted in an interview with Fangoria alongside Argento that they had finished the script for the third film but there are a few things we are still working on to perfect the project a couple of special effects and locations that sort of thing 2 Although Nicolodi mentioned her version of the script again in an interview for Alan Jones book Profondo Argento The Man the Myths and the Magic it was not used in whole or part for Mother of Tears Argento script 2003 4 Edit On 29 November 2003 at the Trieste Science Plus Fiction Festival in Northern Italy Argento revealed that he hoped to start filming The Third Mother in August 2004 and was currently working on the script 3 Thematically it concerned mysticism alchemy terrorism and Gnosticism So many people were tortured because the Church said Gnosticism was heresy and that will be the starting point for the story It has been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind and it has felt surprisingly good to go back and explore the whole story from a retrospective point of view 3 The film was to be set in Rome and begin with Mater Lachrymarum in the Middle Ages 3 Argento originally hoped to cast a Russian model in the role of Mater Lachrymarum 3 He later chose Israeli actress Moran Atias 4 Argento also said that a Hollywood studio might finance the film 3 Anderson and Gierasch script 2005 6 Edit In late 2005 Argento travelled to the North of Europe to begin conceptual work on The Third Mother 5 Soon after it was announced that Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch had been asked by Argento to help him write the film s script When we got there Rome Dario had already done his own pass on the treatment and we spent three weeks holed up in an apartment meeting with Dario visiting the catacombs and getting the first draft done Around this time Fangoria reported that the film would be entitled Mater Lachrymarum 6 The script for The Third Mother was still being refined in February 2006 with Anderson and Gierasch having composed a first draft which Argento then revised 7 This early script began immediately after Inferno with a witch who survived the destruction of Mater Tenebrarum s home watching a detective Ennio Fantastichini investigating a series of murders at a university 8 Other tentative cast members were Chiara Caselli as a psychiatrist Max von Sydow as a mysterious university professor and Giordano Petri as a young investigator who takes the case when Fantastichini s character is killed 8 At this point shooting was set to begin in late spring of the same year and was to be released between November 2006 and January 2007 7 However in early 2006 rumors circulated that Argento had dismissed Anderson and Gierasch after being displeased with their script French horror magazine L Ecran Fantastique reported that Argento alone would receive a screenwriting credit On the tenth of March it was announced that shooting The Third Mother would be delayed until September 9 In mid April it was announced that Argento would return to Italy in June to immediately begin filming The Third Mother which would be a big budget feature produced by Medusa along with a major American company Myriad 10 In May 2006 the title Mother of Tears surfaced as a possible name for the film According to journalist Alan Jones this title was never in the running as far as Dario was concerned That was the title the originally contacted American sales agent Myriad wanted for international distribution 4 In the same month rumors from the Cannes Film Festival linked actress Sienna Miller to the film s lead female role 11 Also at Cannes Medusa s CEO Giampaolo Letta was quoted by Anderson and Gierasch as saying This is going to be vintage Argento Pretty strong stuff 12 In July it was revealed that The Third Mother had been delayed yet again until next November or later and that Argento s daughter Asia had been cast in the film 13 Filming Edit Primary filming in Rome on 25 October 2006 In this scene a mother throws her baby from a bridge in a fit of aberration brought on by the return of the Third Mother In mid October 2006 Gierasch revealed that The Third Mother would finally begin filming later in the month 14 Primary filming occurred in Rome although some parts were filmed in Turin and at the studios of Cinecitta at Terni 15 This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it June 2008 Post production Edit The editing of Mother of Tears was more or less finished by March 2007 16 Dubbing the soundtrack into the Italian and English language versions of the film was finished on 5 April 2007 15 The film s digital effects were created by Lee Wilson and Sergio Stivaletti 15 According to the director of photography Frederic Fasano the film will begin with a subdued cool color palette that will segue to red as the film progresses 4 The Italian distributor of Mother of Tears Medusa Film believed the film was too violent and requested it to be edited 17 Medusa s main objection is to the depiction of perverse sex in the witch gathering satanic scenes and one cannibal killing of a major character 18 Argento was asked to re edit the film to make it more mainstream 18 It was confirmed on 28 May 2007 that the film would receive a rating of 14 in Italy necessitating the removal of all hardcore gore which would later be re instated for the dvd release 19 Promotion EditPromotion of Mother of Tears before Cannes 2007 was limited Several behind the scenes photographs surfaced the first official one at Fangoria on 27 November 2006 20 A short eighteen second preview of The Third Mother was released on 18 December 2006 at Cinecitta com 21 Several black and white photographs of the filming were published on 19 January 2007 in the book Dario Argento et le cinema by Bernard Joisten 22 In May 2007 just before the event at Cannes a promotional poster for The Third Mother was featured on the cover of Variety magazine s digital edition Mother of Tears premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2007 just moments before midnight and Argento s 67th birthday on the 7th 23 The film debuted in Italy on 24 October 2007 at the Rome Film Festival 24 Its Italian wide release occurred on 31 October 2007 Halloween 17 In the United States Myriad Pictures released the film uncut in select cities in June 2008 25 Cannes 2007 Edit The Cannes Film Festival requested that The Third Mother be ready in time for consideration as a 2007 competition contender 4 However the film was not screened in its entirety at the festival On 17 May 2007 at 9 30 am Myriad premiered 20 minutes of footage from the film consisting of eight lengthy scenes to a packed audience 26 The preview was preceded by a credit roll and disclaimer that warned of graphic violence 26 The eight scenes included the complete beginning to the point where Asia opens the Mother of Tears urn the arrival of several demons Daria Nicolodi s powder puff scene a lesbian death scene Udo Kier s major scene Asia running through the streets of Rome Adam James major scene and the entrance of Mater Lachrymarum 26 According to reporter Alan Jones the audiences reaction was mixed the acting quality varied and the script contained too much exposition but the cinematography was beautiful 26 Post Cannes Edit The day after the Cannes screening on 18 May at 3 45 pm co scripter Jace Anderson and actress Coralina Cataldi Tassoni were on The Third Mother discussion panel at Fangoria s Weekend of Horrors convention on the West Coast 27 On 27 May a second promotional poster featuring an eye weeping tears of blood surfaced on the internet bearing only the title Mother of Tears 28 In early June a teaser trailer for The Third Mother was attached to Grindhouse in Italy Camera recorded copies of the trailer surfaced soon afterward on the internet The Cannes promo reel was also screened during Fangoria s Weekend of Horrors East Coast convention in Secaucus New Jersey on 1 July at 12 15 pm 29 Cataldi Tassoni introduced the footage 29 Pirated stills and audio from the preview surfaced the same day on the forum of the Dario Argento fansite DarkDreams org 30 In late August an American trailer for the film was screened at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear US release Edit The film had its US premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival on 25 April 2008 This was followed by a limited theatrical run in June courtesy of Myriad Pictures and a DVD release by The Weinstein Company via Dimension Extreme DVDs on 23 September 2008 Response EditCritical reaction Edit Critical response was mixed although many reviewers felt the film despite its flaws was entertaining The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 49 approval rating based on 73 reviews with an average rating of 5 3 10 The website s consensus reads As excessive and ketchup laden as predecessors Suspiria and Inferno Dario Argento s Mother of Tears completes the trilogy with the same baroque grandeur and soggy 1970s sensibilities 31 On Metacritic the film has a score of 52 out of 100 based on 18 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 32 The concluding film of The Three Mothers trilogy provided some reviewers with an opportunity to reflect on Argento s career as a whole and parallels were often drawn between Mother of Tears and Argento s films from the 1970s and 1980s Variety s Dennis Harvey wrote This hectic pileup of supernatural nonsense is a treasure trove of seemingly unintentional hilarity this Mother is a cheesy breathless future camp classic 33 Stephanie Zacharek of Salon com opined that Mother of Tears is depraved bloody and unrepentantly exploitive and the plot makes virtually no sense it s the sort of movie nobody save Argento himself is crazy enough to make these days It s also so full of life that it dwarfs contemporary horror pictures of the Saw and Hostel variety 34 Jim Ridley in The Village Voice felt the film was further evidence of the declining quality of a once great director s abilities stating that for people who revere the horror maestro s vital work roughly the period between his debut 1970 s proto De Palma giallo The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and his 1990 segment of the anthology film Two Evil Eyes it s painful to watch the Hieronymus Bosch of 70s horror sink this low If you believe someone of Dario Argento s proven talent would make a movie so deliberately sucky feel free to join in 35 Maitland McDonagh hated the film describing it as sadly lacking in the baroque atmosphere and visual aesthetic that elevated Argento above the horror hacks it s flatly lit indifferently staged coarsely violent and brutally straightforward The English language dubbing is the final indignity even the voices are ugly 36 Writing in The New York Times Nathan Lee described the film as silly awkward vulgar outlandish hysterical inventive revolting flamboyant titillating ridiculous mischievous uproarious cheap priceless tasteless and sublime I t may be the most entertaining film of Argento s career It s true that The Mother of Tears strictly as visual storytelling suffers by comparison with the first and second Mother movies or one of Mr Argento s better baroque thrillers like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage But it does something as well as if not better than anything in his oeuvre it goes all the way 37 Scooter McCrae of Fangoria was extremely enthusiastic about the film and said that Mother of Tears is a great movie and well worth the wait Does it have flaws Oh yeah but so do Tenebrae Phenomena Suspiria and Inferno and they re now all part of the accepted canon of classic Argento cinema 38 Cinefantastique s Steve Biodrowski also felt the film was worthy of praise noting that the experience of watching Mother of Tears is like a delirious descent into primordial chaos where the powers of darkness hold sway As a long awaited coda to Argento s Three Mothers trilogy it may not be exactly what was expected but it is perfectly satisfying resolution 39 Argento has noted that he is dismissive of critical reaction saying that the critics don t understand very well But critics are not important absolutely not important Because now audiences don t believe anymore in critics Many years ago critics wrote long articles about films Now in seven lines they are finished The story is this The actor is this The color is good 40 Box office performance Edit In Italy La Terza madre generated 827 000 in two days at 273 theaters By the end of its opening week in 303 theaters it had amassed 1 917 934 and took the 4th spot at the Italian box office To date it has taken 2 077 000 Euros 3 114 070 citation needed During its first week of limited theatrical release in the United States Mother of Tears grossed 19 418 at seven theaters for a per theater gross of 2 774 taking 55th place on Variety s weekly box office chart 25 Soundtrack EditClaudio Simonetti composed the soundtrack for Mother of Tears which was completed in early April 2007 after four months of work 15 He chose a classical style with Gothic influences present in many of the choruses Simonetti described the score as very different from his previous work due to the subject matter of the film 15 The music was influenced by his own work for Argento s Masters of Horror episodes Jenifer and Pelts as well as composers such as Carl Orff Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann among others 15 The score also incorporates electronic music and influences from Simonetti s earlier work on Argento films such as Suspiria and Phenomena 15 The piece at the end of Simonetti s Mater Lachrimarum is called Dulcis in Fondo and was performed by his heavy metal band Daemonia 15 Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth recorded a song with Simonetti Mater Lacrimarum for the soundtrack of the film 41 The soundtrack was recorded in the Acquario Studio of Castelnuovo in Porto Roma The symphonic orchestra parts were performed by the Orchestra D I M I The choral parts were performed by the Nova Lyrica chorus in February 2007 42 Both were recorded in Lead Studios in Rome with the help of sound man Giuseppe Ranieri Filmmakers finished dubbing the soundtrack into the film on 5 April 2007 15 At the preview during the Cannes Film Festival journalist Alan Jones described Simonetti s score as an unqualified success 26 The soundtrack was released around the same time as the film s Italian wide release 31 October 2007 by Edel Music 43 References Edit The Mother of Tears 2007 Box Office Mojo Argento Dario Interview with Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi Taken from FANGORIA Magazine Volume No 35 Issue 4 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