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nant. They turn to Sister Joanne (Cherry
Jones), a nun working at an orphanage, to find
a child to adopt, perhaps the child of Ray (Shareeka
Epps), a difficult 20-year-old woman
who wants to give up the child she’s carrying.
Perhaps it’s hope that keeps Lucy from
seeing what her mother (S. Epatha Merkerson)
senses, which is that Ray is not going to
make adoption easy for them. Though seemingly
entering into the adoption process to
please her husband, Lucy slowly becomes
more and more devoted to this unborn child
Ray is carrying.
In all three story lines, the women are
dealing not only with children but with their
mothers, whether present or not. In all three
cases, the women have, however briefly, some
form of surrogate children — for Karen it’s
Kristi, for Elizabeth it’s a teenage neighbor
— with whom they work out some of their
feelings about the whole mother and child
situation. They also have some kind of coming
to terms with their own mothers. There is
just enough to spoil here that it’s hard to go
into more detail, but the way the movie ends
up, its final 30 or so minutes, really does get
to many different aspects of mothering and
being mothered. The movie has some smart
things to say about the relationship — particularly
between mothers and daughters — and it
leaves you thinking about the nature of motherhood
long after the movie ends.
Which is all my way of saying, hang in
there. Particularly during the movie’s first
hour, which moves in geological time and
presents us with one scene after another featuring
the less sympathetic, more unlikeable
qualities of the central characters. I remember
checking my cell phone hoping I’d gone
maybe an hour and being discouraged to find
that I was only 30 minutes in. Even worse, the
next time I checked the clock, it was only four
minutes later.
There is a “look at my performance” quality
to these initial scenes, as if all of these women
were establishing their fitness for Oscar consideration.
Combined with the harshness of
the characters they play, this actory acting is
as off-putting as Karen’s first-date suggestion
to Paco that he watch his weight. There are a
few moments of dry humor, but mostly there
is a sense of weariness, as though the actors,
and with them us, are doing some very heavy
lifting. I felt myself passing time in the theater
long before I got sucked into the story.
This much buildup isn’t completely forgiven
by the less self-conscious, more engaging
performances. I liked where the movie went
and the change we saw the characters go
through, but I wish the getting there had
been more enjoyable. Writer-director Rodrigo
Garcia has a lot of HBO TV shows on his
résumé and I feel like a lot of the things he did
with the first half of the movie are probably
more suited to episodic television, where you
have weeks, not minutes, to build a character.
Mother and Child is, like the relationships
it discusses, messy, difficult and not always
pleasant — and it is eventually worth it. B-
Rated R for sexuality, brief nudity and
language. Written and directed by Rodrigo
Garcia, Mother and Child is two hours and
five minutes long and is distributed in limited
release by Sony Pictures Classics.
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