The Mother Review: Isabelle Huppert As a Depressed Woman in a Disorienting Play
Near the end of "The Mother," her son strangles the title character to death. But not really. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) is imagining it, or dreaming it. There is a change of lighting, her husband (Chris Noth) is standing over her hospital bed, and the mother, no longer dead, says: "What's going on?" What indeed?...