Mothers' Instinct (15)

★★★ Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain are on entertainingly melodramatic form in Benoît Delhomme’s small town psychodrama Mothers’ Instinct. ~ The Scotsman.

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Starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, Mothers’ Instinct is an unnerving psychological thriller about two best friends and neighbours, Alice and Céline, whose perfect lives in ‘60s suburbia are shattered by a tragic accident involving one of their children.

Marking the directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Benoit Delhomme, we follow Alice and Céline as their familial bonds are gradually undermined by guilt and paranoia and a gripping battle of wills develops, revealing the darker side of maternal love.

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★★★★ Sophisticated, adult thrillers are few and far between, and Mothers’ Instinct fills the void admirably. With vivid, striking imagery and top-notch production design, the film paints an exciting, moreish portrait of psychological intrigue. ~ Empire.

★★★★ A perfectly pitched maternal rivalry; Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain are magnificent in this Hitchcock-inflected tale of Sixties suburbia. ~ The Times.