'Mama Weed' Trailer: Isabelle Huppert Is An Unlikely Drug Kingpin In Jean-Paul Salomé's Crime Film

Isabelle Huppert is a living legend in the world of film. There’s no denying that. And judging by the footage seen in the trailer for “Mama Weed,” it appears she’s having more fun than ever before in the new crime film.

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“Mama Weed” stars Huppert as a translater for the Paris police. And while on duty, she discovers a drug dealer has been apprehended but the police weren’t able to find his stash of weed. So, with unpaid bills and family problems, the interpreter decides to find the weed herself and become an unlikely drug kingpin.

The new film comes from director Jean-Paul Salomé. “Mama Weed” marks his first feature since 2013’s “Playing Dead.” The filmmaker has already been nominated for a major award for his new film, earning a César Award nom for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Mama Weed.”

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“Mama Weed” arrives in select theaters on July 16 before hitting VOD on July 23. You can watch the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis:

A French-Arabic translator for the Paris police anti-narcotics unit, Patience Portefeux (Isabelle Huppert) interprets the daily calls and conversations between the city’s biggest drug dealers. In the evenings, she looks in on her aging mother (Liliane Rovère, “Call My Agent”) at the long-term care facility where she is months behind in paying the bills. When she overhears the son of one of her mother’s nurses on the wiretap, Patience is moved to protect him. But her involvement in his business quickly escalates and she finds herself in possession of a huge store of hash and the insider knowledge required to move it. With her newly adopted retired police dog at her side, Patience transforms into Mama Weed, a savvy saleswoman capitalizing on her field experience to earn the extra income she so desperately needs while doing her best to stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the precinct.