Motherboard (2024)
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- Synopsis:
- Victoria Mapplebeck turned the camera on herself when she found herself single, pregnant, and broke at 38. Shot over two decades, 'Motherboard' is a celebration of solo motherhood and proof that epic journeys can begin and end at home.
- Actors:
- Victoria Mapplebeck, Jim Mapplebeck
- Directors:
- Victoria Mapplebeck
- Producers:
- Victoria Mapplebeck
- Writers:
- Victoria Mapplebeck
- Aka:
- Livet med Jim
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
Reviews (1) of Motherboard
Moving Documentary - Motherboard review by GI
This is quite an absorbing documentary from British filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck who has stitched together about twenty years of mobile phone footage to document her life and relationship with her son Jim from baby to young adult. At 38 Mapplebeck found herself pregnant, alone and struggling for money. With the father absent (they met through a dating agency) she creates a self portrait of her struggles and devotion with all the highs and lows including a serious diagnosis for breast cancer. In many ways this is a love letter to her son and parenting, there's several very moving moments and one that stands out is where she is thinking she may not survive her cancer Mapplebeck cries on camera about her desperation to see Jim to adulthood so he can survive without her. Jim is portrayed as a cute boy but doesn't shy away from his troubles and emotional struggles particularly over trying to build some sort of a relationship with the father he hardly knows. Overall an enthralling documentary, honestly told and with humanity and warmth.