Darren Aronofsky

The Black Swan director on how his divisive new film starring Jennifer Lawrence, mother!, confronts climate change and fame. Mother! is about a couple (Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem) who are living an idyllic rural life until it is severely disrupted by unwelcome guests. It’s an allegorical epic that has split critics. Why make this film now? It started off with me wanting to return to the horror genre after Black Swan. I thought that the home-invasion movie would be a good place to start because everyone understands what it means to have a guest who stays too long. At the same time, I thought it would be interesting to talk about another home–not your home, not my home, but our home. You mean the earth? The mother of us all. The one who gave us all life. I wanted to tell a movie from Mother Nature’s point of view and talk about her love and her gifts and the way people ultimately cause her pain. What were some other inspirations? The Exterminating Angel, this film by the great surrealist Luis Buñuel, where all the guests at a dinner party got locked in the room for some surreal reason. Through it, he was able to make a commentary on society. Mother! shows people worshipping and then literally tearing apart certain characters. Is it a meditation on the consequences of fame? To be honest, I wasn’t thinking about that. I think it was a by-product of casting Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem and Michelle Pfeiffer, who have dealt with that ...
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