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- 1 h 34 m
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Summary Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Directed By: Benoît Delhomme
Written By: Barbara Abel, Sarah Conradt
- Neon
- 1 h 34 m
- Neon
- 1 h 34 m
Mothers' Instinct
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Summary Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Directed By: Benoît Delhomme
Written By: Barbara Abel, Sarah Conradt
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
46
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
82% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Sophisticated, adult thrillers are few and far between, and Mothers’ Instinct fills the void admirably. With vivid, striking imagery and top-notch production design, the film paints an exciting, moreish portrait of psychological intrigue.
There’s an odd timidity here that borders on self-denial.
The plot is rubbish. Nobody seems comfortable putting tongue anywhere near cheek. If the costumes were any more heightened you’d demand a song and dance number. All of which makes it hard to look anywhere else. But good? Probably not. Bad? Maybe not that either.
While a committed Chastain and Hathaway do their utmost to inject some gravitas into proceedings there are some moments which border on the absurd, particularly as it reaches its frenzied climax. Still, there is some fun to be found in the arch campness of it all and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the film looks gorgeous.
A film about two immaculately groomed women gaslighting and goading each other to the point of madness should be a lot more fun than this.
It’s a thriller’s engine purring away, while it stubbornly sits in neutral, getting us nowhere.
The movie starts out very serious and shocking and concludes on a note of pure farce, though I have to say Chastain’s performance has a clenched restraint which is marginally more convincing than Hathaway’s operatic but callow displays of hurt and entitlement.
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