Scarey Mother
 Screened at 2018 San Francisco Film Festival
Unknown opening date in USA
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Scary Mother
This foreign film made in Estonia with subtitles of course, follows Manana(Nato Murvanidze), a married mother with three children who has just written a novel. The book, while purported to be fiction, examines her unflattering feelings about her husband(Dimitri Tatishvili) and children as well as her extreme sexual fantasies. She goes on to develop a dependent relationship with a local stationery store owner who essentially tries to be her book agent and major supporter of her writing. The story becomes more bizarre as we meet her father who has taken on the role of a translator for the book. The book she is writing and her own life become more complicated and entwined as does the film. First time director Anna Urushadze has taken on a very difficult and complicated story, which draws in the viewer but may be too much to digest (2018).
Category: 3 Stars, Drama | Tags: 2018, Anna Urushadze, author, Dimitri Tatishvili, Estonia, Nato Murvanidze, Scary Mother, sexual fantasies Comment »