Fraser shines in otherwise coercive melodrama
Tag: Darren Aronofsky
REVIEW: mother! (2017)
An unnamed couple live in a large, remote house. He (Bardem) is a poet suffering from severe writer’s block. She (Lawrence) spends her days restoring the house and attending to every domestic task in the book. One night, a stranger (Harris) turns up on their doorstep thinking it is a B&B. When her husband invites him – and later his wife (Pfeiffer) – to stay, it becomes apparent that they may have let something far worse into their lives…