Overview

• The film opens in U.S. theaters on October 10 following a high-profile festival run.
• Critics single out Rose Byrne’s performance as the emotional core of the story.
• Mary Bronstein’s direction employs extreme close-ups, oppressive sound, and surreal imagery to mirror a mother’s unraveling.
• Safdie collaborators, including producer Josh Safdie and cinematographer Christopher Messina, shape the movie’s pressure-cooker aesthetic.
• Key elements include a child dependent on a feeding tube, an absent husband, a displacement to a motel, and an intentionally disorienting blurring of reality.