Geez, I haven’t seen a more harrowing mother-son relationship since Goodnight Mommy. I probably saw this a good 8 years ago and I thought I ed it being pretty straightforward. I was surprised by this rewatch - the visual aesthetic and textured cinematography is gorgeous. But it also succeeds in being viscerally disturbing, too. The red overtones and the various substances - the tomato sauce being thrown at the beginning of the movie, the baby food thrown at the fridge,…
