{"id":30280,"date":"2019-01-29T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30280"},"modified":"2021-02-11T01:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:02:43","slug":"mothering-2018-slamdance-film-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/29\/mothering-2018-slamdance-film-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothering (2018) [Slamdance Film Festival 2019]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mothering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mothering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mothering.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mothering-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mothering-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>There are those short films that you go in to, and when they\u2019re done, you wish they could have been so much longer. Lucy Bridger\u2019s drama about a young girl name Mia (Sapphire Paine) who learns to live with a new foster family is subtle, sweet, touching, and actually quite excellent. I would have to see director Bridger adapt this in to a full length film someday very soon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Much of \u201cMothering\u201d explores the small but difficult steps foster children have to endure, and while there\u2019s nothing very dramatic in \u201cMothering\u201d that unfolds, it\u2019s a big challenge for Mia. The final half is everything, as Mia awakens to a situation that allows her to feel somewhat at home, whether she realizes it or not. The final scene involving a bowl of Custard speaks volumes about what Mia has been through in her life.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s obviously a girl who has seen so much and has experienced very little love, and perhaps that fleeting moment of making home made custard was an experience of peace and affection she\u2019d never experienced. Maybe she\u2019s realizing she finally has a home, or maybe it\u2019s the uncertainty of her future that affects her. Either way it\u2019s a gripping end to an excellent drama. I hope Lucy Bridger expands on this and explores Mia\u2019s relationship with her new foster family, if you ever cross paths with \u201cMothering\u201d I strongly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Slamdance Film Festival runs every year from January 25<sup>th<\/sup> to January 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those short films that you go in to, and when they\u2019re done, you wish they could have been so much longer. Lucy Bridger\u2019s drama about a young girl name Mia (Sapphire Paine) who learns to live with a new foster family is subtle, sweet, touching, and actually quite excellent. I would have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2655],"tags":[302,367,501,938],"class_list":["post-30280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","category-slamdance","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30282,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30280\/revisions\/30282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}