Scary Mother
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, extreme writer / obsession, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
Our read · Scary Mother (2017) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive writer · obsession · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Scary Mother
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