Hot Mother

Attempting to quell some tension, a mother and daughter head to the hot springs… but more heat isn’t what they need.

In Lucy Knox’s (An Act of Love, MIFF 2018) searing, Berlinale-selected chamber piece, a parent and child’s antagonistic dynamic turns nightmarish. Their fiery verbal sparring is unsettling yet compelling, and a genuine dread arrives when their confinement intensifies.