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Babes Was a Labor of Love
In directing a feature about motherhood, Pamela Adlon found the sweet spot between slapstick and body horror.
At the same time, the movie extends the humor of the knockabout Comedy Central series Broad City, in which Glazer and her co-star, Abbi Jacobson, pushed commercial cable’s content restrictions to the breaking point. At the time, Adlon talked openly about Better Things ’ eagerness to go wherever inspiration took her, even if it resulted in discomfort-inducing plotlines involving periods, colonoscopies, and psychologically disturbing sexual encounters. Whether dishing hard truths about dilation, lactation, breast pumps, amniocentesis, the exertions of labor and birth, or the melancholy that takes root even in mothers who adore their kids, Babes finds the sweet spot where slapstick meets body horror.
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