"It's this series of mundane problems that start to snowball until Linda is about to reach her breaking point. And that's where If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Mary Bronstein's surreal and tense new psychological thriller, holds you in its iron grip, forcing you to feel every new stressor and inconvenience that Linda is experiencing, until you feel like you are about to explode."
"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, written and directed by Bronstein, joins a long line of psychological dramas about women, often mothers, on the verge of a breakdown. The pain of womanhood, and motherhood, for that matter, has provided us with so much rich cinematic text over the years that it's easy to wonder what a film with such relatively low stakes could add to the subgenre."
Linda cares for a terminally ill daughter who refuses to eat enough to have a stomach feeding tube removed. Her husband is away on a two-month work trip and criticizes her for missed group therapy sessions. Her therapy clients burden her with trivial problems while a large hole and burst pipes appear in her bedroom ceiling. Forced into a shabby motel, Linda develops dreams of a rotting, expanding hole and begins nightly wine purchases from an annoyed clerk. Small, mundane stressors accumulate into a tense psychological spiral anchored by Rose Byrne's shattering lead performance.
Read at Inverse
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]