The low-budget A24 movie seems to try to answer a question perhaps no one has asked: What if Tennessee Williams had written a horror story centered around Norman Bates' mother on the brink of madness?
Set in modern day New England, 'The Front Room' establishes Belinda as an anthropology professor in late pregnancy and her husband Norman, a public defender. Both feel devalued by their jobs, and the couple is struggling to pay bills.
As played by Kathryn Hunter, Solange is a withered octogenarian so wracked with arthritis she needs two canes to walk and practices a Christianity based in ascetic cruelty.
The film explores themes of familial obligation and psychological horror, echoing the works of its predecessors in the genre while maintaining a unique narrative perspective.
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