They prepare for the happy day.

For days, they are not allowed to see him.

you’ve got the option to tell new parents anything, after all: what do they know?

‘Mother’s Baby’ review

Claes Bang and Marie Leuenberger in ‘Mother’s Baby’FreibeuterFilm

That fear, which everyone understands, eats into the mind like a worm.

When the baby arrives, he barely makes a sound.

Vilfort is fascinated by axolotls.

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Which, of course, is a perfectly reasonable thing to find fascinating.

Nothing odd about that.

Julia cant properly give voice to her ability to bond with the supposed flesh of her flesh.

She wanted this child so much.

Maybe it isnt hers at all.

Why cant she see the birth records?

Georg worries about her, then withdraws from her.

Her doctor prescribes tranquillizers.

Together, they have designated her a bad mother.

This film is a bit like that.

Petrifying, but youre glad you did it.