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Synopsis

A French-Arabic translator for the Paris police anti-narcotics unit, Patience Portefeux interprets the daily calls and conversations between the city's biggest drug dealers. In the evenings, she looks in on her aging mother at the long-term care facility where she is months behind in paying the bills. When she overhears the son of one of her mother's nurses on the wiretap, Patience is moved to protect him. But her involvement in his business quickly escalates and she finds herself in possession of a huge store of hash and the insider knowledge required to move it. With her newly adopted retired police dog at her side, Patience transforms into Mama Weed, a savvy saleswoman capitalizing on her field experience to earn the extra income she so desperately needs.

Cast

  • Isabelle Huppert
  • Hippolyte Girardot
  • Farida Ouchani
  • Liliane Rovère
  • Iris Bry
  • Rebecca Marder
  • Mourad Boudaoud
  • Jade-Nadja Nguyen

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Metacritic

50
Jul 23, 2021

Cinematically speaking, this is all low-hanging fruit. Maybe such unimaginative choices wouldn’t stand out so much if Huppert were herself not such an inventive and riveting performer. She is, and Mama Weed doesn’t really deserve her.

Metacritic review by Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine (Vulture)
75
Jul 15, 2021

Its the laugh-out-loud brazen chutzpah of it all and Huppert’s cocksure, casual and lie-on-the-fly amorality in the title role that gives Mama Weed her buzz. Huppert has never been sunnier or funnier.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
70
Jul 15, 2021

Although Salomé’s lower-key approach to the material occasionally creates the sense that moments of ripe comedy have been left untapped, as well as a low-key ending that might have benefited from a final twist, there’s plenty to appreciate.

Metacritic review by Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Los Angeles Times