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‘Mother’s Baby’ Review: Johanna Moder’s Latest Rivals ‘Eraserhead’ As A Visceral Evocation Of New Parenthood – Berlin Film Festival
‘Mother’s Baby’ review: Johanna Moder’s latest rivals ‘Eraserhead’ as a visceral evocation of new parenthood – Berlin Film Festival
Films by Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz and Jessica Hausner may be very different from each other, but are similarly unflinching as they roam threatening spaces, find the sinister in the everyday and delve into the darkness of human hearts. Johanna Moder’s previous films didn’t share that sensibility, but she shows her Austrian colors in Mother’s Baby, the most viscerally ghastly evocation of new parenthood we’ve seen since Eraserhead. As the last act surges into sci-fi territory, we are so firmly enmeshed in a realistic psychological drama that the gruesome goings-on at Dr. Vilfort’s establishment — which we have been anticipating, in some form, since we first encountered his glowering presence — feel real too.
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