kijii Our Mother's House is a strange movie. Almost the entire movie takes place within one contemporary English house and hinges on seven closely-aged children, all totally devoted to their deeply religious mother. When their mother dies near the beginning of the movie, the children decide to bury her in the garden and live off of her pension checks which arrive regularly. One of the children, Jiminee (Mark Lester), learns how to forge his mother's signature to cash the pension checks. The children soon release the housekeeper, Elsa (Margaret Leclere), so that they can live alone without adult supervision. Even though they continue to go to school, none of them mentions that there is no adult in the house. Whenever this strange family of children needs counseling from an adult, one of the young girls, Diana (Pamela Franklin) is able to channel her in a backyard room that they call "the tabernacle." All the children seem to know about their mother's absentee husband, Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde), but no one seems to want to contact him until he is absolutely needed. Bogarde only has a small amount of time on screen, but it is one of his the most unusual roles.

Tom Murray When their ill mother dies, the Hook children bury her at night in their garden and keep on living as if everything were normal, so that they will be able to stay together as a family. The oldest of the seven children, Elsa, takes command but she does listen to their thoughts, especially those of the oldest brother. They work together well but not without some disagreements. To get advice from their late mother, the family gathers together for "Mother Time" and Elsa channels their mother's advice to her siblings. The children work pretty well together to do a good job of managing the house, finances, school, cleaning, shopping, cooking etc. After a while, their mother's husband, Charlie Hook, appears and he takes charge, with varying reactions from the seven children.

jcplanells3 This excellent film is a forgotten jewel. An intriguing story about the dark side of the childhood, but also a poetic look to a group of boys and girls who decided to continue his life as usual, as if his mother were among them and not dead. So, the undesired return of a father (or maybe not the father of all of them, perhaps) breaks the normal life (in the point of view of the children) that they live. So the father (Dirk Bogarde) should pay for to be an stranger in some kind of closed paradise. The direction of Jack Clayton (remember The Innocents) is perfect, and so is Dirk Bogarde, in the best moment of his career of actor.

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