All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy
“Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes in Nightbitch. Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yodel’s novel is a fiery challenge of society’s traditional, patriarchal notions of motherhood….until it isn’t. Not nearly as daring or outrageous as it aspires to be, the well balanced mix of drama, comedy, and fantasy doesn’t so much to upset the status quo as find a way to make sense of it. But if that very structure for raising a family makes you literally want to go to the dogs, if raising kids makes you feel erased as a person, why not create your own framework for happiness?… Read the rest
