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Scary Mother

Sashishi deda

2017

Ana Urushadze

Nato Murvanidze, Dimitri Tatishvili, Ramaz Ioseliani, Avtandil Makharadze ...

6.5

196

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The film makes strong points about gender roles and the sacrifices required in the service of the compulsion to create (...) The image of a woman ripped in half is a potent one"	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A compelling mix of domestic drama and psychological thriller (...) Unusually assured for a debut feature, with a strong visual aesthetic and a healthy streak of absurdist humor"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"[An] exhilaratingly offbeat oddity (...) Refreshingly subversive"	POS
United States	Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"An entrancing portrait (...) Watching Manana pursue her aspirations and break free from the shackles of a calcified existence (...) is as captivating as it is subversive."	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"A bold debut enveloped in a transfixing style, preserving the ambiguity of borderline derangement (...) It's a fever dream translated into the aesthetics of Eastern European social realism."	POS
	Vassilis Economou Cineuropa	"'Scary Mother' is a brave debut feature on a topic that has already been explored through different approaches, but Ana Urushadze offers her own unique perspective, proving she is a filmmaker to follow"	POS
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"The film is at its most dazzling when Murvanidze simply roams spaces big and small (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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