Milkwatertakes its title from "The Consecrating Mother" by Anne Sexton, the Pulitzer-winning mid-20th century American poet who wrote with stark confessional candor about the intimate physical and emotional experience of womanhood.
That makes it natural to expect a singular focus in Morgan Ingari's likable first feature about a directionless young woman who impulsively decides to become a surrogate for an older gay man she barely knows.
What makes this disarming serio-comedy work, however, is that while it's very much a complicated character study driven by the stealth rawness of Molly Bernard's funny-sad performance, it wraps the same empathetic embrace around pretty much everyone in the protagonist's messy orbit.
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