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Mother’s Instinct movie review: Unsurprising suburban thriller
Updated On: 02 August, 2024 05:50 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
Mother’s Instinct movie review: A largely faithful remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s dark 2018 Belgian drama Duelles, this film fails to generate crackling tension or biting suspense
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Mother`s Instinct
Film: Mother’s Instinct
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Eamon Patrick O’Connell, Anders Danielsen Lie, Josh Charles
Director: Benoît Delhomme
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 94 min
A suburban thriller set in the 60’s this motherhood dictated drama draws out murderous fears and criminal intent through tragic circumstance. Renowned cinematographer turned director Benoît Delhomme makes the picture look distinctive enough but the overall treatment fails to generate surprise or enthusiasm. This female-centred psychological thriller, uses maternal grief and guilt as a construct for spreading thin a hugely predictable suspense story.
The cinematography is imminently alluring here. Alice (Jessica Chastian) and Celine ( Anne Hathaway), neighbors and best of friends living with their respective husbands and one-child families in Suburban New Jersey, find their close sisterhood tearing-up after an unforeseen tragedy upends their lives. Ambiguity takes over as a taut, jittery Alice and an inconsolable grieving Celine teeter around edgy paranoia and suspicious behavior.
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