Berlin Film Festival focusing on messy motherhood
Berlin:
The film bares the tensions and difficulties of modern motherhood, and is in the spotlight at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The most starring trio in the festival’s top Golden Bear Awards is if the foot kicked you, premiering a positive review at last month’s Sundance Festival.
Rose Byrne (Damage, X’s Man) plays Linda, an exhausted therapist. When Linda tries to care for her sick daughter herself, her life becomes out of control.
Director Mary Bronstein brings the camera uncomfortably close to Burn throughout the whole of the Burn, cutting the child out of the frame throughout the film as Linda struggles to drink, smoke and float.
“My idea was that Linda was literally in a place where she couldn’t see her child about who she was: a sick little girl who needs a mother,” Bronstein told reporters. He spoke.
“She eschews that reality, and she sees her (the daughter) as a duty, another matter, as a sacrificing her.”
Byrne said that because of her flawed portrayal of birth, she was drawn to the role of a dark comedy drama where she saw her turn over for Oscar’s success.
“I am interested in exploring about being a mother, especially through the eyes of women.
Byrne is supported by a cast that includes Bronstein, late-night television host Conan O’Brien and rapper A$AP Rocky.
Motherhood is not an unknown territory for Hollywood or the wider international film industry, but the conditions of affection in 1983 wiped out Oscars with a plot based on the troubled mother-daughter dynamics.
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar shot to gain fame about my mother in a 1999 hit.
But Austrian director Johanna Model, whose mother’s mother’s baby is also competing in Berlin, said that there is an increasing gender balance in the traditionally male-dominated sector.
“For the past 100 years, films have not had a focus (on motherhood),” she told reporters. “I think this has something to do with the fact that women are making more films now and that women are explaining this story from their perspective.”
Mother’s baby plays a mysterious, fertile doctor at Danish Clas Van (known for Palme de Or the Square in 2017) with Swiss German actress Marie Louisenberger as the lead role. I’m playing it.
Louenburger’s character Julia struggles to bond with her newborn baby before descending into postnatal depression and delusions, lending the film the touch of a psychological thriller.
“She tries to love this child because this is what you do as a mother. You should be happy,” Luenburger said. “Even so, her instinct is telling her that something is wrong and she has to be on guard.”
The third mother-themed film is Hot Milk by British director Rebecca Lenkivich. This is a story about a set set in Spain, filled with mother-daughter relationships.
Romanian art house director and former Berlin Festival winner Radu Jude also places a surprised mother at the heart of his latest low-budget, very contemporary film, Kintinental ’25.
Considered one of the most powerful entries of the year, it tells us that the lives of hardworking and humane enforcement officers in Romania have been disrupted by evictions that lead to suicide. AFP