2024 · drama · horror · comedy
Nightbitch
Directed by Marielle Heller1h 38m2024
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.
Our read: Nightbitch (2024) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal drama · horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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