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The first trail­er for Dar­ren Aronofsky’s moth­er! is here

31 Jul 2017

Words by Mark Allison

Jen­nifer Lawrence looks like she’s going through some sort of super­nat­ur­al ringer in this lat­est from the Black Swan director.

Dar­ren Aronof­sky has been keep­ing his new movie shroud­ed in secre­cy, so we were very excit­ed indeed to be able to take a peek at the first trail­er for moth­er!, which is due to debut in UK cin­e­mas on 15 Sep­tem­ber. Jen­nifer Lawrence fea­tures heav­i­ly in the chill­ing first offi­cial trail­er, while we also catch a glimpse of co-stars Ed Har­ris, Michelle Pfi­ef­fer and Javier Bar­dem, who looks rather upset.

Fol­low­ing an atmos­pher­ic open­ing, the final moments descend into a ter­ri­fy­ing cacoph­o­ny of sound and image, which is often the way Aronof­sky struc­tures his movies. Although details are scarce at this point, the briefs snip­pet footage promis­es a dis­turb­ing tone which echoes Aronofsky’s pre­vi­ous work in his 2010 psy­cho­log­i­cal hor­ror-thriller, Black Swan. Which is very okay by us.

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