Scary Mother

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Scary Mother

2017

1h 47m

Drama

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A 50-year-old woman abandons her duties as a wife and mother to pursue an obsessive and hermetic life of writing.

Ela Bittencourt

Cinema Scope

02/14/2019

Scary Mother proves delightfully off-kilter, the dead seriousness of the social setting and the family conflict pierced by humorous or absurdist moments.

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

03/26/2018

3/4

Virginia Woolf's iconic aphorism that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" comes to life in the most allegorical of ways in Scary Mother.

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

10/27/2017

The vast, largely unmapped terrain of a middle-aged mom's creative life gets a witchily weird, uncompromisingly assured showcase in Georgian director Ana Urushadze's exhilaratingly offbeat oddity.

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

01/29/2019

3.5/5

I wish her 'madness' were taken to those extremes where we would be able to address Scary Mother as a creepy film.

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Tanner Tafelski

Kinoscope

11/18/2018

Scary Mother is a new film that formally sets itself apart from the glut of recent neo-realist cinema emerging from Georgia.

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Jaime Fa de Lucas

Culturamas

09/13/2018

Although it's [director] Ana Urushadze's debut film, it seems more like the work of a veteran director who controls the medium perfectly. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

A 50-year-old woman abandons her duties as a wife and mother to pursue an obsessive and hermetic life of writing.

Director: Ana Urushadze
Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili, Lasha Khalvashi
Screenwriter: Ana Urushadze
Production Co: Allfilm
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Georgian
Runtime: 1h 47m