Sunday, January 21, 2018

mother! dir. Darren Aronofsky (2017)



Phenomenally passionate, featuring Jennifer Lawrence's best work and a terrific unintentional foil from Javier Bardem, the vacuum of a poet who destroys their paradise with his all-too-human need for attention and praise. What begins as the spare pastoral dream life à la Edward Hopper descends into the chaotic, unhinged vision of Hieronymus Bosch.  Creation needs a lack of some kind, but does the Creator? Could God not make a better god?



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