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‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Review: Rose Byrne Falls Into A Mom Shame Spiral In Mary Bronstein’s Tense Dramatic Comedy — Sundance Film Festival
Writer-director Mary Bronstein's latest feature takes audiences on a tense journey of motherhood that almost never lets up.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You stars Rose Byrne as Linda, a mom attempting to find a treatment for her daughter’s mysterious illness while dealing with an absentee husband, a missing therapy patient and a giant hole in her ceiling that keeps getting bigger. The film immediately builds tension with a closeup of Linda in a family therapy session with her daughter, who emphasizes that “mommy is stretchy,” unlike daddy, whose word is final. And while Byrne has plenty of closeups, the tension is only compounded by the characters whose faces are never seen, including her daughter that is in constant panic mode, and her husband (played by Christian Slater), who is only heard through the phone while he chastises her parenting from afar.
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