BBC推薦:9月必看的電影(雙語)

Looking like a hybrid of Rosemary's Baby, Funny Games, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a married couple who, at any superficial glance, appear to be enjoying connubial bliss. But then the husband invites another couple, played by Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer to stay with them, and things go badly wrong. Things go very, very wrong. Mother! appears to have as many frights, if not more so, than Darren Aronofsky's previous foray into horror, Black Swan. Since that film was released in 2010, he's only made one other, Noah (2014), an adaptation of the Biblical tale that polarized critics. What both of those films had in common was characters cast adrift by primordial forces over which they have no control and barely understand – and for at least Jennifer Lawrence's ultimately suffering wife character in Mother! it appears to be much the same.