Checking in with Hollywood
Once again, my life as a New York City mother has been portrayed on the silver screen. This time it is called Motherhood. I feel that I owe it to myself to see movies about women who live in Manhattan so that I can gauge how I am being portrayed to the world. Read more
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
