FILM
NIGHTBITCH
OR, HOW I PET YOUR MOTHER
Tennis ball bouncing down street just out of shot.
★★★
OUT 6 DECEMBER / CERT TBC / 98 MINS
DIRECTOR
Marielle Heller
CAST
Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Ella Thomas, Archana Rajan, Jessica Harper
PLOT
A stay-at-home mother (Adams) becomes increasingly exhausted by parenting — and to top it off, she seems to be turning into a dog.
THERE ARE PLENTY of famous movie mums. But the actual experience of motherhood —the brutal daily monotony, the blood-sweat-andmilk toil that goes into keeping a tiny human alive —remains a bit of a cinematic rarity. Nightbitch is an effort to redress the balance, in uncompromising fashion: it’s a funny and freaky and appropriately messy film that’s part broad outlandish comedy, part toe-curling bodyhorror, part feminist treatise.