Film
Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?
The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.
Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. She is a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Foundation Prize in arts journalism and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.