To celebrate the upcoming home release of Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, we spoke to the director himself about the film’s beginnings and beyond. SciFiNow: How did mother! come about? Darren Aronofsky: Well there’s, there’s a lot of ideas at the beginning of this project that started it all. I’ve always been jealous of songwriters who in
Mother!
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan saw Natalie Portman’s character struggle to maintain her identity and sanity in her own manic pursuit of perfection. Similar concepts rear their head in mother! too; only it examines control being taken rather than being lost, creating something much more harrowing. Charismatic duo Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem offer up powerhouse