‘Hot Milk’ Review: A Wispy Mystery Masks Deeper Trauma in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Mother-Daughter Psychodrama
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variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the sultry and slightly stir-crazy mind game that is “Hot Milk,” something’s the matter with Rose’s legs.
The elderly single mom, played with an irritable, bone-deep bitterness by Irish actor Fiona Shaw, has spent the past few years paralyzed by an illness no one can diagnose.
She’s seen multiple doctors, whose best guess is that it’s psychosomatic, something to do with a distant trauma she refuses to confront.
The film, which director Rebecca Lenkiewicz has elliptically adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel, seems less interested in finding a cure for Rose’s condition than in preventing its spread.
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