Film Review: You Are Not My Mother is an Irish horror that engages with depression and generational issues

"a feature-length debut that marks out writer/director Kate Dolan as a talent to watch"
Film Review: You Are Not My Mother is an Irish horror that engages with depression and generational issues

Carolyn Bracken in You Are Not My Mother

★★★

You Are Not My Mother (16s) stars Hazel Doupe as Char, a teenager growing up on a suburban Dublin estate who gradually begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right with her mother, Angela (Carolyn Bracken). The symptoms — torpor, emotional distancing, a refusal to leave her bed — suggest depression, but Char isn’t convinced.

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