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Opinion: A new wave of filmmakers are exploring motherhood’s discontents

24 January 2025

Dr Rachel Williamson, UC Arts, explores Nightbitch, a film that portrays motherhood as a visceral, monstrous, and complex experience.

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Nightbitch, an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel, blends magic realism and horror to highlight maternal ambivalence and the transformative challenges of motherhood.

Amy Adams delivers a compelling performance as Mother, an unnamed installation artist who places her career on hold to raise her son, but struggles and starts to spiral out of control, morphing into a dog.

Dr Rachel Williamson discusses this film’s surreal portrayal of motherhood in her article on The Conversation>


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