Cinema Salon: NIGHTBITCH

Name: Cinema Salon: NIGHTBITCH
Start: 2024-12-17T15:30:00-06:00
Location: FilmScene (at The Chauncey)

Schedule

Tue, 17 Dec, 2024 at 03:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

FilmScene (at The Chauncey) | Iowa City, IA

Join us for a special Cinema Salon screening of the film on Tuesday, December 17 with a post-screening discussion with Senior Center member Frank Murray, retired teacher of literature, philosophy, and film. Senior Center members should RSVP with the Senior Center.
About the film:
"A movie about insisting on your joy and fiercely holding tight to it, not in spite of your motherhood but alongside it."—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
"An amusingly incisive howl of maternal pain, frustration, disappointment, resentment, and feral strength."—Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"There’s no denying the universal truths behind the narrative."—Jourdain Searles, Little White Lies
A Blue Carpet Dash Film
Adapted from the celebrated novel by Iowa City author Rachel Yoder, director Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) tells the story of a small city artist-turned-stay-at-home-mom (Amy Adams), trapped by her domestic duties and the weight of motherhood. With a well-meaning yet oblivious husband (Scoot McNairy) and a group of new mom friends she can't relate to, she is overwhelmed, exhausted, and longing for more. Her heightened sentiments begin to manifest physically. As her body begins to change, she is seized by strange appetites and desires—getting in touch with a more animalistic side of her being in a comedic nightmare of motherhood infused magical realism that takes a turn for the canine.