Scary Mother

2017

1h 47m

Drama

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88%

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8 Reviews

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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

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

Feb 14, 2019

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

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.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 26, 2018

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

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.

Oct 27, 2017

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

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

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 29, 2019

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Tanner Tafelski

Kinoscope

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

Nov 18, 2018

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Jaime Fa de Lucas

Culturamas

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]

Sep 13, 2018

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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