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Film Review - Mothers' Instinct

Film Review - Mothers' Instinct

Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway chew scenery in Benoît Delhomme's solid psychological thriller

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Apr 05, 2024
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Based on Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Duelles (2018), which I confess I haven’t seen, Benoît Delhomme’s English language remake is the second screen version of Barbara Abel’s novel Mothers’ Instinct, and it’s rather good. Featuring a pair of strong leads in Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, their names appear in precisely the same configuratio…

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