Mother and Child

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George S Feb 8, 2019 This brilliant film explores the depth and scope of loss and redemption poignantly but without sanctimony. Too many contemporary stories portray birthmothers as stock characters indistinguishable from one another as human beings, linger in the delivery room, and presume there is a universal range of responses to surrender. Instead, "Mother and Child" focuses not only on the birthmother, but on the many lives touched, intersecting and only occassionally interwoven by the birth and adoption of one child. The actors are skilled and exceptionally well-cast, and the script is not burdened with smarmy cliches. Birth and death pass as swift, transient events in "Mother and Child", reminding us that the swaddling and shrouding are seconds long - and the substance of life is everything in between. The women - the birthmother, her mother, the daughter she surrendered, the adoptive mother, and their mothers - are distinct, separate individuals whose lives are variously affected by adoption, absent or engaged, but always independent. "Mother and Child" is only disappointing in ending with Munrealistic images of closure, that seem contrived in these characters and most improbable in real life. See more

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