If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/67531e0d707ccd55f3088423)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
In the second feature film from writer-director Mary Bronstein, life's responsibilities pile up — parenting alone, house is a construction zone, countless doctors visits, no available parking — all of which grows into an anxiety that overwhelms every aspect of our protagonist's life. The audience is pushed into a downward spiral of motherhood where there is never any solution or support in sight. But as its title suggests, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is also very funny — very darkly... bizarrely... uncomfortably funny. Rose Byrne's lead performance brilliantly rides the edge of exhaustion and delirium, bouncing between the pressures of her life that includes two character irritants played by Conan O'Brien and A$AP Rocky, who have memorable supporting roles.—Charlie Sextro
Written and Directed by Mary Bronstein
So excited for this! Easily my favorite thing I've ever worked on. :yabbse-smiley:
This is one of the movies I'm most excited for! That's so cool to know you're involved! Production Assistant?
No, I was a hybrid Production Secretary/Assistant Production Coordinator. It was a thrifty production so many of us had to do multiple jobs at once.
Well I can't wait to see it. I may even have to drive to Anchorage and stay the night, if I need to. This and Baktan will be worth it for me.
Both Sara Murphy productions! She's killing it. But yeah, this script is one of the best I've ever read. And I have a lot of fun BTS stories to share when the time is right. I'm excited to see what the final cut looks like! And wait until you all see what Conan brings lol
Very well received at Sundance rn ~
Here's indiewire's write up on the movie (https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-review-rose-byrne-1235088103/)
QuoteMore realistic by virtue of its pronounced expressionism, Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" — her first feature since "Yeast" in 2008, and a far cry from the mumblecore naturalism of her debut — is the kind of film in which the things that should be scary are funny, and the things that should be funny are terrifying. The premise itself is every parent's worst nightmare, but it's shaped in a way that makes it feel like a cosmic joke. Which is to say that Linda spends much of the movie locked in a close-up so extreme that everything around her, her unnamed young daughter most of all, seems like a tauntingly disembodied echo of her own anxieties.