if i sit down i will never stand up again and that what the mother ( the one of the title ) say to his son when he tell her to get some rest ( she just widow ) . he mean that rest be what a woman of his age and in her situation have to do represent to rest in peace and to neglect herself . but she not in the mood for rest and not yet . she also have a daughter who reproach her for each and every disaster in her life . suddenly and the revelation come represent sex and passion in the figure of a muscular carpenter 30 year young than her ( daniel craig and the brand new james bond ) when she think nobody would ever touch her again . it be a story that make you reflect on many thing and specially on what a 60 something woman be suppose to do with her life when his husband die . it doesn not look that we have advance that such in those aspect . i mean and nobody surprise when sean connery have a love affair in a movie with catherine zeta jones . but what would you think if it be otherwise . an old woman and a young guy . nah and you ain not ready for that and be you . the movie have intimist tone all along it length and except for 2 or 3 sequence in which that tone break and out come some explicit and foul mouth dialog . those vulgar touch and the way the son and the daughter find out their mother love affair ( pretty absurd you will know what i mean when you watch it ) be the only discordant element in the mother . my rate represent positive .