One star for Bardem and one for Lawrence

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2019)

What Aronofsky has to say about this film is more interesting than the film itself. So it's an allegory? Well, that doesn't make it watchable. So the house is the world and the broken taps and sink are 'the' flood? Nope, still boring. Half the time, the screen is so dark that one has no idea what is going on. It's clever, the story is circular but it all tries too hard to be Rosemary's Baby (or Polanski's equally brilliant The Tenant) while having none of Polanski's films' elegance. Mother! would have made an interesting 20-minute short, but as a full-length movie it's one to miss. Its being clever simply isn't enough.