Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
Me, Myself and Mum is a semi-autobiographical French comedy by Guillaume Gallienne, adapted from his one-man stage show. The premise—a man raised essentially as a girl by his domineering mother who must eventually navigate his own heterosexual identity—is genuinely distinctive and warmly comic. The theatrical origins lend the film an unusual dual-performance quality, with Gallienne playing both himself and his mother, which is inventive and mostly effective. However, the cinematography is fairly conventional and TV-movie in register, offering little visual ambition. The plot, while charming and personal, occasionally meanders and relies on episodic vignette structure rather than strong dramatic momentum. The ending is satisfying but fairly predictable given the autobiographical arc. Overall a pleasant, modestly original personal film that earns its warm reputation without breaking new cinematic ground.