Film Review – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Writer/director Mary Bronstein aims to cinematically communicate the pressure cooker experience of being a mother in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” There have been a number of slightly similar endeavors in recent years (including “Tully” and “Nightbitch”), exploring the psychological fragility of women who are doing their best to keep it together as pressures, real and imagined, build up around them, causing a temporary break from reality. Bronstein goes to a much darker place in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” reaching into the main character, who’s handling too much and all at once. The helmer offers a powerful examination of helplessness, and actress Rose Byrne shakes off the sameness of recent performances to vividly portray an emotional meltdown leaking out of a tightly wound person, getting to the core of a fantastically complex living experience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com