Nightbitch
Directed by Marielle Heller
Written by Marielle Heller
Starring Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy
Release Date December 12th, 2024
Published December 28th, 2024
What I love about Nightbitch is the raw honesty that drives so much of Amy Adams’ performance and the script of Nightbitch. The film is about the sacrifices women make to become a mother, beyond the physical toll and into the intellectual and emotional toll. Women don’t get the chance to talk about these feelings as it can seem, on a very base level, that they aren’t happy to be mothers or that they didn’t participate in the choice of becoming a mother. It’s a nuanced conversation that some, mostly men, aren’t comfortable with.
Nightbitch doesn’t shy away from it. Instead, writer-director Marielle Heller takes Rachel Yoder’s bestselling novel, and her remarkably unique premise, and builds on it with Amy Adams’ raw performance and a visual style that compliments the unusual metaphor at the heart of the movie. If you’re not aware, in Nightbitch, Amy Adams turns into a dog at night, partially at first, with a full-on transition as the story progresses. She doesn’t remain a dog, it’s merely a part of her, an instinctual, animalistic element of her Mother character that represents aspects of herself that have lain dormant.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
