This fall, cinemas around the country are echoing with a single, unmistakable sound: the primal scream of mothers pushed to a breaking point.
You can see it in the crevices of Rose Byrne's exhausted face in the October-release If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, where Byrne plays Linda—a therapist and mother worn down by caring for a school-aged child with a severe eating disorder. The roiling rage is there in Jennifer Lawrence's unraveling in November’s Die My Love, her desires turning her into an unpredictable beast, wielding a knife and crawling in the grass. It's even present in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, when the activist Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) chafes against the expectations placed on her once she gives birth.
