Adams could become the leader of the awards pack with Marielle Heller’s latest.
Motherhood is wild inNightbitch,a playful, creative, and brutally honest portrayal of being a mom.
There is mild body horror as Mother discovers that she’s sprouting a tale or developing six extra nipples.
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
McNairy is a worthy foil, a well-intentioned husband who simply doesn’t get it.
He manages to make his character empathetic rather than an outright selfish jerk not an easy feat.
“What happened to my wife?”
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
and she replies, “She died in childbirth!”
It’s a stinging summation of the emotional and physical metamorphosis women experience when they become mothers.
It’s a punch in the gut of a question from Heller/Yoder.
Amy Adams.Ben Trivett/Shutterstock
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But it is not a film that is anti-motherhood.
It celebrates it as well, in all of its primal, animalistic, savage contradictions and complexities.
