520. Mother!; movie review
Cert 18
121 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong violence
“So, how many out of ten are you rating that?” I inquired of Mrs W, convinced that she would give mother! an icy blast.
“Seven or eight”, came the surprising reply.
I had been convinced that Darren Aronofsky’s movie would have been too surreal and too gory for her palate.
However, there is no doubt that the ever-excellent Jennifer Lawrence gives one of the performances of the year and that it is impossible to look away from the screen for a second.
Lawrence plays a young wife who is renovating a country mansion in which she lives with her much older husband (Javier Bardem).
The latter is a poet who has writer's block and, therefore, enjoys the distraction when, out of the blue, a doctor (Ed Harris) arrives thinking the house is a B & B.
His wife is then dumbfounded when her hubby agrees to put the visitor up and even more astonished when his flirtatious wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) arrives.
She thinks this is a disturbance of her peace but it is only a spark of the chaos to come.
Oh, did I mention that there seems to be a beating heart/foetus buried in the walls of the house and that the mansion was regenerated from a burnt shell by Bardem's character in the very first scene.
Yes, whenever I thought I might be gathering a modicum of understanding for Aronofsky's film, he throws in the utterly incomprehensible.
Since watching it, I have read a few reviews which try to make some sense of it but none have convinced me.
Indeed, I would expect it to be a mainstay of film studies courses for decades to come.
But description would spoil the experience which has a (often gasp-inducing) surprise around every corner.
Reasons to watch: Jennifer Lawrence at her best
Reasons to avoid: its storyline is utterly baffling
Laughs: none
Jumps: two
Vomit: yes
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 7/10
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I just watched the movie “mother” with Jennifer Lawrence and I’m honestly just sitting here with my jaw on the ground
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