Last night I sat in the warm dark of SIFF Uptown and let If I Had Legs I’d Kick You crawl under my skin. Mary Bronstein’s film is a fevered, tender, and unforgiving look at motherhood in pieces — Rose Byrne gives a performance that lands like a punch and then keeps unfolding into something bruisingly honest. The film moves with a tight, anxious rhythm; it’s not comfortable, and it doesn’t try to be.
Last night’s screening felt like being pulled into someone else’s private weather: rain on windows, floods of memory, and a mounting, near-electric dread that never tips into cheap shock. If you go hoping for easy answers, don’t — this wants you to sit with the questions. It’s the kind of movie that will keep you awake in the best possible way. Go see it while SIFF’s got it; seeing Rose Byrne wrestle with this role on a big screen is something else.
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