If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Is a Warts-and-All Portrait of a Psychotherapist Struggling with an Ailing Daughter

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, review: Rose Byrne is Oscar-worthy as a despairing mother on the brink

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a warts-and-all portrait of a psychotherapist struggling with an ailing daughter

Rose Byrne won a Golden Globe and is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. It’s a film about frayed mother Linda (Byrne) coping with her daughter’s strange, unspecified feeding disorder. In director Mary Bronstein’s words, the film is “a surreal, horrifying, blackly funny portrait of a mother simultaneously kicking against and coming to terms with her maternal instincts”. Bronstein has drawn from her experienc…

Film Reviews: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is viscerally intense and stress-inducing

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You revolves around an exceptional performance from the Oscar-nominated Rose Byrne, who spends most of the movie in extreme close-up as we absorb the nerve-shredding terror of a mother who believes that she’s getting it fatally wrong.

The Oscar-nominated If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a sublime endurance test – review

Writer-director Mary Bronstein pushes her camera further and further onto Byrne’s face until it practically feels like we’re sitting in her eyeballs

Rose Byrne explains why key character's face is never shown in "excruciating" new thriller

She has wowed critics in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.

Rose Byrne Can, and Does, Do It All

The misfortunes endured by Linda, the frayed nerve portrayed by Rose Byrne in last year's unhinged comic drama "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," include but are not limited to: a mysteriously ill child, a surly absentee husband, a…