2019 · sci-fi · thriller · drama
I Am Mother (2019)
Directed by Grant Sputore1h 53m2019
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Our read: I Am Mother (2019) (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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