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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Adastra Cinema
- 1 h 34 m
- 2024
- R
- Adastra Cinema
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Directed By: Benoît Delhomme
Written By: Barbara Abel, Sarah Conradt, Olivier Masset-Depasse
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Adastra Cinema
- 1 h 34 m
- 2024
- R
- Adastra Cinema
- 1 h 34 m
Mothers' Instinct
47
5.5
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Summary Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Directed By: Benoît Delhomme
Written By: Barbara Abel, Sarah Conradt, Olivier Masset-Depasse
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
47
16% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
84% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
47
16% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
84% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Sophisticated, adult thrillers are few and far between, and Mothers’ Instinct fills the void admirably. With vivid, striking imagery and top-notch production design, the film paints an exciting, moreish portrait of psychological intrigue.
By Barry Levitt
FULL REVIEW
Mothers' Instinct is an entertaining, well-acted drama that falters under the weight of its shocking ending.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
5.5
31% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
62% Mixed
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8% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
5.5
31% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
62% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Confesso que eu esperava mais do roteiro, toda a construção até o clímax parece ser filmada com uma estética classicista, ou de Oscar bait ou **** entanto, é inegável aqui que o filme todo se escora nas atuações femininas, sendo seu maior mérito e demérito até, já que os personagens masculinos são postos em segundo plano, inclusive o filho sobrevivente, que sempre está meio **** ver a Hathaway e a Chastain num duelo de titãs, com traços típicos de sociopatia, performando sobre os papéis maternos em sentimentos de culpa, instrospectivos e invasivos, falando com o olhar, é tão gratificante que ao menos isso empolga. A cena final que exigiu maior ação, não está bem de perto traduzindo a grandeza que poderia ter sido o filme, muito mais belo nos detalhes minimalistas dessas duas poderosas mães.
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Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway play happy neighbors with young sons who are best friends. A tragic accident happens that results in all manner of suspicion and jealousy. When you start with an Oscar-winning twosome, you can expect some enjoyable dramatic moments and they deliver. The period production design adds an appealing visual element. This is the first directorial effort by established cinematographer Benoît Delhomme and he hasn't managed to bring much tension or real dramatic flair to this psychological thriller. The ending pushes credibility and there are other flaws, but watching Hathaway and Chastain work provides the film's true motive.
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The plot is rubbish. Nobody seems comfortable putting tongue anywhere near cheek. If the costumes were any more heightened you’d demand a song and dance number. All of which makes it hard to look anywhere else. But good? Probably not. Bad? Maybe not that either.
Mothers’ Instinct gets by on its pulpy potential more than anything else. There’s something intrinsically appealing about watching two phenomenal actresses go head-to-head in an old-fashioned melodrama.
While a committed Chastain and Hathaway do their utmost to inject some gravitas into proceedings there are some moments which border on the absurd, particularly as it reaches its frenzied climax. Still, there is some fun to be found in the arch campness of it all and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the film looks gorgeous.
A film about two immaculately groomed women gaslighting and goading each other to the point of madness should be a lot more fun than this.
The movie starts out very serious and shocking and concludes on a note of pure farce, though I have to say Chastain’s performance has a clenched restraint which is marginally more convincing than Hathaway’s operatic but callow displays of hurt and entitlement.
(Mauro Lanari)
Remake of a 2018 Belgian work I rated 3.5 out of 10 ("''Scenes from a Siamese Marriage': a Hitchcòckian family thriller that, aiming to explore the criminal allure of the 60s bourgeoisie, is ruined with a pandemic of characters with psychiatric behavior"), I could also dismiss this directorial debut by just underlining the Botox competition between the two self-producing divas. Instead, this film provides me with an opportunity to remark a crucial point: it makes no sense to talk about toxic love as if in the history of ideas the analysis of agapelogy was concluded in the 6th century of Augustinian Neoplatonism or with the "si Deus non est, unde bonum?" first of Boethius ("De consolatione philosophiae", 524) and then of Leibniz ("Essays on Theodicy", 1710). Since then we have gained further knowledge, we have learned to distinguish the "bonum" from the "gratia" also thanks to game theory, we have new explanatory models that however do not reach writers, novelists, screenwriters, etc. Don't they update themselves by studying the new scenarios opened up by such research? Then they should not complain about not having anything original to say, show, tell.
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Awards
Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Rooster Awards
• 1 Nomination