
A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.... (Full plot summary below)
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A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
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| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneVirginia Woolf's iconic aphorism that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" comes to life in the most allegorical of ways in Scary Mother. |
| Film ThreatDante JamesScary Mother has an intriguing concept but doesn't do a very good job of pulling you in...Along with confusing plot and unexplained characters popping up for random scenes never to be seen again, you will probably lose interest halfway through. |
| Hammer to NailJessica BaxterScary Mother is a quietly riveting film that is richly layered with themes of identity, traditional gender roles, sacrifice, and hypocrisy filtered through the lens of a middle-aged mother of 3. |
| CulturamasJaime Fa de LucasAlthough it's [director] Ana Urushadze's debut film, it seems more like the work of a veteran director who controls the medium perfectly. [Full review in Spanish] |
| KinoscopeTanner TafelskiScary Mother is a new film that formally sets itself apart from the glut of recent neo-realist cinema emerging from Georgia. |