Based on the play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Nora Sadava, Patricia Rozema's film Mouthpiece is a tale of mother and daughter, grief, sacrifice, and growing up. Reprising her stage role for the screen, Amy Nostbakken plays 30-year old Cassandra, an aspiring writer, who is shaken by the death of her mother, Elaine (Maev Beaty). When she tasks herself with writing her mother's eulogy, Cassandra is hurled into an examination of her own grief, feminism, and womanhood. The narrative flashes back to Cassandra's youth (the character's young version is played by Sadava), where it is revealed that Elaine set aside her own career ambitions to look after her children. Plagued by guilt from both the present day and the past, Cassandra enters the path of rediscovering her own forgotten voice.
Director Biography
Canadian director Patricia Rozema was born on August 20th, 1958 in Kingston, Ontario. She graduated from Calvin College in Michigan and made her feature debut with I've Heard the Mermaids Singing in 1987.
Press
"In revealing Cassandra's interior life, Rozema lays bare the modern female condition in an epic battle that is by turns lacerating, soothing and heartbreaking." - Globe and Mail
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