Mother!

(2017) dir Darren Aronofsky w/Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson [121 min; DCP]
Polarizing does not begin to describe the effect that Darren Aronofsky’s audacious Bunuelian allegory has had on audiences and critics alike. In MOTHER!, Jennifer Lawrence is the companion to Javier Bardem’s revered poet. They live together in an isolated house that she is single-handedly restoring, and, for a time, things seem idyllic… until the uninvited guests begin to arrive, and the history of humanity plays out as a terrifyingly absurd spectacle.