MOM
Lonely Christopher • 2020 • USA
A sleuth tale morphs into an offbeat noir about family.
Try is a young man who who enlists the help of a ramshackle agency of detectives to track down his biological mother. His drunken, charismatic case manager Arden leads him through urban landscapes in search of a mysterious woman named Judy Curtains, who seemingly holds the key to his identity.
Twisting the sleuth genre into an offbeat noir about adventure, family, and the desire to belong, MOM is the directorial debut of prominent queer poet/writer Lonely Christopher. A Filmatique Premiere.
