Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch tackles the feral nature of motherhood, with her protagonist Mother (Amy Adams) physically transforming before our very eyes, taking on more than a few canine features. Adapted from Rachel Yoder’s novel, Nightbitch encapsulates the animalistic rage felt by mothers living in a patriarchal society.
The movie deftly navigates the ways in which women are subjected to misogyny in their early days of motherhood (and beyond). Adams depicts a woman in crisis as she parents a toddler, slowly admitting to the loneliness and shame she feels — something her mostly absent Husband (Scoot McNairy), who makes an artform of weaponised incompetence, fails to understand.
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