Honeymoon with My Mother

Honeymoon with My Mother
Theatrical release poster
Spanish: Amor de madre
Directed byPaco Caballero
Written byCirstóbal Garrido
Antonio Valor
Produced bySofía Fábregas
Juan Gordon
Starring
Edited byNacho Ruiz Capillas
Music byLucas Vidal
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • 22 April 2022 (2022-04-22)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Honeymoon with My Mother (Spanish: Amor de madre) is a 2022 Spanish comedy film directed by Paco Caballero. It stars Carmen Machi and Quim Gutiérrez in the main roles.

Synopsis

When José Luis is dumped on the altar by his girlfriend, his mother Mari Carmen tries to cheer him up. Among the wedding's wasted plans is a prepaid honeymoon to Mauritius. Mari Carmen insists that her son does not lose the money of that trip, and they both embark on a mother-son vacation to the African island nation. Surrounded by beaches and commodities, José Luis feels at his worst while Mari Carmen enjoys every day of the holiday, showing a side previously unknown to her family.

Cast

Source:[1]

Filming

Filming took place mainly in March 2020 on Mauritius, an island nation east of Madagascar, just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.[2] The work resumed in August 2020, with actresses Ramos and Bustos contracting COVID-19, for which they remained isolated for nearly a month at a local hospital.[3]

Justina Bustos kept a photographic and video record of the isolation by using her cell phone and taking notes and drawing on a diary.[4] When Bustos returned to her native Argentina and after the end of the pandemic, Bustos was contacted by Hernán Casciari who showed interesting in making a documentary about her experience in isolation in Mauritius. The production was released in June 2023.[4]

Filming was completed in January 2021 with some scenes being taken in Madrid and Tenerife.[5]

Reception

Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has for the film an approval rating of 52% based on four reviews as of April 2026 and an average rating of 3/5 stars, with criticism focused on the film's predictability and flatness while praising Gutiérrez and Ramos as the best actors of the production.[6]

Andrea Nogueira Calvar of El País gave the film a positive review.[7] Other positive opinions were made by Sergio Pinilla and Beatríz Martínez of 20 minutos and El Periódico, respectively.[8][9] Sofía Otero of Las Furias Magazine criticized the film for its lack of innovation and said that the feminist aim that it had by showing a middle-aged woman enjoying life did not do any good, instead failing and bringing the typical women's tropes again to Spanish cinema.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Herruzo Martínez, Ignacio (3 May 2022). "'Amor de madre': reparto, banda sonora, localizaciones y dónde se rodó" ['Mother's Love': cast, soundtrack, locations and where it was filmed]. Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  2. ↑ de Dios, Marisa (27 April 2022). "'Amor de madre': Carmen Machi y Quim Gutiérrez sacan punta de las tensiones madre-hijo en Netflix" ['Mother's Love': Carmen Machi and Quim Gutiérrez highlight mother-son tensions on Netflix]. El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  3. ↑ Capelo, María Eugenia (4 May 2022). ""Amor de madre": la comedia española que relata la luna de miel de un hombre... ¡Con su mamá!" [“Mother’s Love”: the Spanish comedy that tells the story of a man’s honeymoon… with his mother!]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  4. 1 2 ""Sola en el paraíso". Justina Bustos: de ATAV a producir un documental sobre su cuarentena en Isla Mauricio" [“Alone in paradise.” Justina Bustos: from ATAV to producing a documentary about her quarantine in Mauritius]. La Nación (in Spanish). 10 June 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  5. ↑ Ventureira, Rubén (22 April 2022). "El rodaje más catastrófico de Carmen Machi" [Carmen Machi's most disastrous film shoot]. El Debate (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "Honeymoon with My Mother". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  7. ↑ Nogueira Calvar, Andrea (5 May 2022). "Carmen Machi y Quim Gutiérrez presentan la comedia 'Amor de madre'" [Carmen Machi and Quim Gutiérrez present the comedy ‘Mother’s Love’]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  8. ↑ Pinilla, Sergio F. (29 April 2022). "Crítica de 'Amor de madre'" [Review of 'Mother's Love']. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  9. ↑ Martínez, Beatriz (28 April 2022). "'Amor de madre', diversión sin sentimiento de culpa" ['Mother's Love', guilt-free fun]. El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  10. ↑ Otero, Sofía (5 May 2022). "'Amor de madre' arrasa en Netflix: "¿A que voy yo y lo encuentro?"" ['Mother's Love' is a hit on Netflix: "I bet I'll find it!"]. Las Furias Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
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