Mother!

A woman (Jennifer Lawrence) working to rebuild the house and home of her husband (Javier Bardem), a writer and poet stricken with writer’s block, try’s her best to inspire creativity in the face of a series of unexpected events and distractions, but just how much of herself will she have to give? Written and Directed by Darren Aronofsky this multilayered narrative is as much about how couples relate to each other as it is about religion, social hysteria, humanity, anxiety, and love to top things off. That is to say, this is not a check your brain at the door type film, this is a film that will cause you to question your own behavior and force you to think, leaving you unnerved and reflective. Key to the whole experience is Jennifer Lawrence in perhaps her most demanding and grueling performance to date, as well as a brutally irksome appearance from Michelle Pfeiffer; meanwhile, work from Bardem and Ed Harris serves nicely to cap things off and sell the drama one tick louder. One to be discussed by scholars and cinephiles alike this is a work of art that qualifies as modern philosophy and is not to be taken lightly. Mother! is rated R.