Young Mothers review – jumps from dramatic peak to dramatic peak

Young Mothers review – jumps from dramatic peak to dramatic peak

Belgium’s Dardenne brothers return with a typically emotive film about a group of very young women dealing with the dramas of childbirth. The Dardenne brothers’ new film, Young Mothers, opens at a bus station, one of the unlovely and liminal spaces where their dramas, including Rosetta, tend to unfold; we’re in the company of another young girl with baby-fat cheeks, rabbity eyes, and coiled nerves, but soon, a slight downward tilt of the handhel…