Rent Mother! (2017)

2.8 of 5 from 1014 ratings
1h 56min
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Synopsis:
Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in oscar nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus, the film shattered audiences and critics around the world, it's been called "gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding" and "Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work", experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown!
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Directors:
Producers:
Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel
Writers:
Darren Aronofsky
Aka:
Day 6
Studio:
Paramount
Genres:
Thrillers
Collections:
2018, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/01/2018
Run Time:
116 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description, English Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Turkish Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.39:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • "Mother!": The Downward Spiral
  • The Makeup FX of 'Mother!'
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/01/2018
Run Time:
121 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
Arabic, Bahasa Malaysian, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Mandarin-Taiwan, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Simplified Mandarin, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.39:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • "Mother!": The Downward Spiral
  • The Makeup FX of 'Mother!'
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/01/2018
Run Time:
121 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing, French, Portuguese, Spanish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.39:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B

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Reviews (34) of Mother!

Hated it, couldn't stop watching it - Mother! review by SD

Spoiler Alert
18/01/2018

"Let's make a two hour movie about Jennifer Lawrence's boobs, and put in a rape scene to remind women of their place, and tell everyone no means yes."

"Coolio. Is there a story? What is people ask?"

"Don't worry brah, if they ask I'll just make something up, people are dumb as shit."

13 out of 42 members found this review helpful.

Mother! - Mother! review by porky

Spoiler Alert
09/02/2018

Wow, very Powerful and Uncomfortable .

Im not in any way a follower of any religion but I saw it very clearly as a Creation/God /Christian Parable....Bardem the Creator....God Figure , The Acolyte of Bardem,Ed Harris and his Wife (Adam and Eve) and his two Sons,Cain and Abel,brothers ,one killing the other . Eventually after the Many Wars in the Holy Lands all around God ,who demands the Love and Praise of his followers ,Gives his only Born Son to Humankind Who in their Ignorance Kill him, eating his Blood and Flesh as Sacrement . etc..... it was also a powerful story of Love and how it can be taken for granted by the Blind,Taken but never Fed and Nurtured . like with nature .the Earth Dies and the Creator ,Bardem,Starts Over Once Again...fed only by the Love and Praise he greedily takes from his devoted follower.who loved him unconditionally .

Deeply meaningful symbolism and yet obscured by a distracting overlay of discomfort for the protagonist in her own home being invaded by destructive and brutal outsiders .

Alarming, shocking and thought provoking .

A Must see Movie.

9 out of 13 members found this review helpful.

Don't Waste Your Time - Mother! review by GS

Spoiler Alert
27/01/2018

This is possibly the worst film that I have had the displeasure of watching in a long time and trust me I watch a lot of movies both good and bad. What I fail to understand is what numpties in Hollywood agreed to fund this movie and pay big names like Jennifer Lawrence.

7 out of 17 members found this review helpful.

Critic review

Mother! (aka Day 6) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso

Sometimes the biggest of budgets can turn even the most skilled of filmmakers into amateur auteurs. It’s with great sadness to report that writer/director Darren Aronofsky has fallen into this pool with mother! Armed with a $30 million budget and an all-star cast, his picture seems to be airing on the safe side, just in case audiences were too weirded out by the likes of The Fountain and Black Swan, too subtle with the weird. No worries about this film going over any heads as Aronofsky hammers his allegory so bluntly that the exclamation point in the title is too fitting.

Jennifer Lawrence plays the wife of a poet portrayed by the handsome Javier Bardem. They live in a house that is being newly renovated. He’s hoping to finish his greatest writing yet. She wonders why she is seeing visions of Silent Hill around the house, flashing in and out of reality with Cronenberg style grossness. What does it all mean? Don’t worry, all the questions will be answered more open they should be.

Guests start coming to the house as Bardem’s fame builds. Ed Harris plays a dying man that is a fan of the poet, Michelle Pfeiffer his reactive wife. Two of their feuding sons happen upon the house, played by Domhnall and Brian Gleeson, one of them killing the other inside. All of this is happening so fast, including the pregnancy of Lawrence that happens during these events. Bardem’s writing explodes and the house is literally exploding with people, including Kristen Wiig as a herald and Stephen McHattie as a zealot.

Would it really be such a spoiler to reveal that all of this happens to be an allegory for Mother Earth, existing not in reality but within a visceral mental landscape? It shouldn’t when the walls literally break down and everything becomes obvious within the first half of the film. And for the rest of the movie we’re essentially watching weirdness for the hell of it, most if not fully aware what all this means. And is that really what I should be looking forward to in an Aronofsky picture? Action scenes, special effects, and gore? That’s all there is to look forward to when all has been deciphered in record time for a movie by this filmmaker.

I guess to the film’s credits, the effects are kinda neat if they were existing in a much different movie. As I mentioned with Lawrence’s visions, they’re delightfully Cronenberg in their depiction. Spots in the floor turn into gooey passages and toilets become clogged with bloody and disturbing creatures. The house, which contains the entire story because, surprise, it’s supposed to be Earth, turns into a glorious mess of destruction. Walls explode, gunfire erupts, blood spills and savage zealots rip apart all inside. If the story doesn’t go anywhere by the third act, the effects at least get crazier with Lawrence’s labor pains shaking the house, splitting the floors, and setting fire to bodies.

Had it been from any other director, mother would have been considered a decent effort of arthouse entertainment. But it’s shockingly disappointing to say that the acting and special effects are used to prop up a rather flimsy story that makes a statement as overly bold as a PSA for the kids. I suppose the poster is not too shabby with its painterly quality, but I don’t think I can look at it the same way again after the clever meme of it being pasted on a cereal box with the title “Oops! All Allegory.”

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