Mother! - Anmeldelser

...'Mother!' [er] en bibelhistorie om Jordens eksistens. Et storslået projekt om at modernisere Biblen til nutidens globale problemer.

Darren Aronofsky leder os ind i mareridtet med samme udsøgte kontrol, som vi har set i ’Requiem for a Dream’ og ’Black Swan’, hvor han klemmer nyt blod ud af klassiske greb som dobbeltgængere, sindets opløsning og det indre uhyre.

It’s a delirious, disgraceful experience – just make sure you give it space to breathe.

Fotograf Matthew Libatique følger på fornem vis Lawrence rundt i det klaustrofobiske hus. Det dynamiske kamera veksler mellem ultranær og halvtotal, så man selv føler sig halvsvimmel.

...it is a mad, transfixing, rolling thunder-crash that bowls you over in the moment, but which keeps squirming away under your skin for days.

...a wholly unnerving exercise in distress, realized with explosive, exceedingly visceral panache...

The auteur's super-secret new psychological horror is a nightmarish dreamscape. It does not disappoint.
“mother!” begins as a slow burn and builds toward a furious blaze.

I have a lot of questions about what happens in this movie. I am intended to.

...it’s gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding all at once.

Wrapped up in a tremendous sound design and stylish cinematography, Bong’s film is at its best revealing both shocking surprises and sad secrets at a measured pace.