Uma Ovum

Asked to write “500 words about what motherhood means to me,” Uma Thurman as Eliza, West Village hausfrau and former hipster, spins her stroller wheels. So writer-director Katherine Dieckmann puts that essay on film as Motherhood. This unusually personal movie is also a rare, heterosexual story from Christine Vachon’s Killer Films production company. Even rarer: It’s a life-affirming Killer Film. Dieckmann details a young Manhattan mother-of-two’s juggling act—thwarted ambition, ambidextrous care-and-loving of children, husband and friends. The movie is also, in part, a documentary of city life in white, middle-class New York without apology nor the smugness of last year’s Noise. Read more