Mother
The first reviews for Darren Aronofsky’smother!praises the motion-picture show for being an impressively stylized and provocative horror / thriller , if also one that is border to prove divisive with cosmopolitan interview . This would n’t be the first occasion where one of Aronofsky ’s movies turned out to be rather polarizing , either . After all , he is the same movie maker who ’s responsible for forThe Fountain- a sometimes - confounding phantasmagorical yarn where Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play multiple characters - as well as the controversial big - budget scriptural retellingNoah(featuring jumbo fallen angels that look like the Rockbiter fromThe Neverending Story ) .
trailer formother!have already propel comparisons between the movie and Aronofsky ’s Osar - winning 2010 filmBlack Swan , in the horse sense that both are psychological thrillers that go around around a young woman ( play by Jennifer Lawrence inmother ! ) who may or may not be losing her mind . Lawrence costars inmother!alongside Javier Bardem , work a couple whose quiet life together is shatter when orphic , uninvited guests start arriving and taking up residence in their home . Based on the initial review for the flick follow its premiere at the Venice Film Festival , mother!is as much a show window first of all for Lawrence asBlack Swanwas for Natalie Portman .
For more on what critic are saying aboutmother!so far , go over out the followingspoiler - freereview excerption below ( and select the check links to scan the review in full ):
THR- Todd McCarthy
Writer - director Darren Aronofsky wants to have his commercial cake and bite down on some vexing personal issues , too , in female parent ! , a very Rosemary ’s Baby - like intimate horror taradiddle that definitely grabs your care and eventually soar well over the top to make the sheer concluding program line that , for some Maker , art is more important than spirit . How the plastic film ’s compelling superstar Jennifer Lawrence may feel about this thought is another matter , but this is a story that , like any number of fanciful genre outings , both pulls you in with its challenging central spectacular situation and pushes you out with some mighty far - fetched secret plan contrivances .
Indiewire- Jessica Kiang
[ “ female parent ! ” ] uncoils from a amok tense , tricksy and claustrophobic first 60 minutes into some of the most free burning escalating insanity ( and scorchingly brilliant filmmaking ) ever to bite down a movie house screenland . An seditious spiritual allegory , a haunted - house repulsion , a psychological head trip so extreme it should carry a health warning and an apology for crimes of the creative ego past and not yet confide , it ’s not just Aronofsky ’s most bombastic , ludicrous and fab film , spiked with a kind of heedless , go - for - broke , allow for - it - all - up - there - on - the - blind wantonness , it is just one of the most films ever .
Variety- Owen Gleiberman
If the only matter we require , or expected , a horror picture show to do was to get a rise out of you - to make your center widen and your jaw drop , to allow you in breathless chortle spasms of WTF mental rejection - then Darren Aronofsky ’s “ mother ! ” would have to be figure some form of masterpiece . As it is , the movie , which star Jennifer Lawrence as a char who slip down a rabbit hole of paranoid could - this - be - happening ? reality … is far from a chef-d’oeuvre . It ’s more like a dazzlingly proficient automobile of virtual reality designed to get nothing but a ascent out of you . It ’s a churrigueresque nightmare that ’s about nothing but itself .
filmdom Daily- Fionnuala Halligan
mother ! is a personal , end - of - days statement which expresses the angst of these clock time as well as a late - seated and bloody abomination for them . It ’s an unusual studio picture from Paramount : like much the rest of Aronofsky ’s work it will divide and shake consultation and critic , but should still be hailed as an original , strikingly unconventional piece on its US commercial release September 15 ( shortly after its Venice and Toronto premieres ) . laurels roleplay seems probable , particularly for Aronofsky ’s muse Jennifer Lawrence , body forth and responding to all his considerable neuroses , fears and desire , as an creative person , a lover , and a citizen of the planet .
Collider- Brian Formo
mother ! is n’t quite as fascinating as it think it is , and the hellish setting perhaps expire too far , but it is relentless and it for sure is something that needs to be experienced . It ’s exceedingly adventurous and is volitionally open to both praise and snickers . What was enthralling , for me , was how the audience I see it with respond so fundamental , not too different from the freakish audience in the movie . I was smother by shrieks , yawns , laugh , smiles and a man who yelled “ make out you ” at the screen as soon as the credits depart . You ’ll either get something you want from mother ! or you ’ll feel like you were fleece . And I think that ’s middling exciting for the current studio climate . Nothing is good about female parent ! And that ’s thrilling for an creative person like Aronofsky .
Themarketing formother!has openly invited comparisons between Aronofsky ’s film and director Roman Polanski ’s 1968 horror classicRosemary ’s Baby- a film that most of the former review formother!likewise name - drop ( in a good way ) as being a gauzy influence on Aronofsky ’s latest cinematic extraction into madness , much like Polanski’sRepulsionwas often cited as being an obvious influence onBlack Swan . Ed Harris ( Westworld ) and Michelle Pfeiffer ( The Wizard of Lies ) round off out the main casting ofmother!and , like Bardem , are receive top stain for their several performances in the film thus far . However , much likeBlack Swanwas Portman ’s show first and foremost , these reviews indicate that Lawrence is the main attraction inmother!(somewhat literally , as one review notes that Lawrence is credit for being in more than half of every single shot in the plastic film ) .
Whereas Portman wound up acquire home her first Best Actress Oscar victory forBlack Swan , Lawrence already has one act Academy Award to her name ( for the filmSilver Linings Playbook ) - think the betting odds might not be as much in her favour of picking up a second Oscar already formother ! , despite the buzz that she has already begun generating forward of the right get-go of the Hollywood accolade season this year . too , mother!is already suck up some of the same dash - over - substance criticism that were pull down againstBlack Swan , with the postscript thatmother!is even more out - there and over the top bizarre by comparing . While this might makemother!a must - see for those who were hardcore fans of Aronofsky ’s previous directorial endeavour , it could make it difficult for the film to reach crosswalk appeal ( suffer its awards season prospects , in the process ) .
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