Synopsis
Mama Weed (La Daronne, 2020) is a French crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and led by Isabelle Huppert in full deadpan mode. Patience Portefeux is a Parisian Arabic translator who intercepts drug calls for the police by day — until one tip sends her down a different path entirely.
Her mother's care home is bleeding money she doesn't have. When a hashish shipment falls into her orbit, she pivots. Within weeks she has suppliers, buyers, and a street alias — La Daronne, the Godmother. The twist she keeps having to manage: she's still translating police surveillance reports about herself, sitting at her desk, correcting the transcripts.
Huppert plays it bone-dry, barely raising an eyebrow at the escalating chaos she's authored — which is precisely what makes the comedy land. This is a caper built around a woman who is more dangerous the calmer she gets. Stream Mama Weed online on iFILM.
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