A women’s picture in a mold that’s more and more idiosyncratically his own, with Mother and Child Rodrigo Garcia ( Nine Lives ) poses a number of intriguing questions about the nature of maternity, only to obscure them with a gloss that is equal parts sentiment and subtle but specious politics. That he pulls off an involving film anyway is largely a credit to his superb main cast, a trio of interlinked characters played by Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington. Each grapples in some way with her femininity and its connection to what her womb has either done or failed to do, and while all of these women are types, the actresses dignify them with the emotional force of their performances.
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REVIEW: Superb Cast Salvages Bland Mother and Child
