BIRTH/REBIRTH

Post-partum obsession

Leila Latif

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 15 | Download ▸ Director Laura Moss ▸ Cast Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, Breeda Wool, AJ Lister → Frankenstein has captured the cultural imagination for over 200 years, and in Birth/Rebirth is viewed through the cruel prism of grieving motherhood. Our unorthodox scientist comes in the form of socially awkward mortician Rose (Marin Ireland). Labour nurse Celie (Judy Reyes) has just lost her young daughter Lila (AJ Lister) to meningitis, but discovers that she’s been resurrected in Rose’s apartment. Despite her reservations, Celie cannot resist doing whatever she can to save Lila, and moves in with Rose to aid the “experiment”. The film eschews the well-worn tradition of the previously dead coming back as monsters, and instead focuses on the increasingly unhinged dynamic between the…

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