Aronofski's return to form - and gutsy filmmaking

Rating: 8/10 (13 December 2017)

The way I see it a hard film to love yet one I cannot but deeply appreciate for the powers that drive its making.
If one is to digest this utterly pretentious and yet magnificently bold and audacious picture (btw it is men who have created the most audacious and bold feminist statements on film AND the most unrelenting critiques to patriarchy), one has to explore its dream/nightmare quality, its tonally masterful strokes of comedy and, alas, the unabashedly heartfelt, self (male/artist)-incriminating, insightful study of the (in-love) female psyche.
The outcome is a perfectly controlled throughout, biblically hysteric and cautiously framed chaos, that inevitably bashes out the borders of what a filmmaker is "allowed" to show. Still, in all its unhinged havoc, deep down one feels this is what Hollywood must do in order to meet some groundbreaking demand.