Rose Byrne is terrifying in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ at Sundance

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Rated R (language, some drug use and bloody images).PARK CITY, Utah — What will surely go down as one the most stressful movies of the year is “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s absorbing psychological drama about a mother at her breaking point is two hours of mounting anxiety and nervousness.

For Rose Byrne’s falling-apart Linda, and for us.I’m sweating just thinking about it.Bronstein takes otherwise unremarkable domestic moments — driving with a pet hamster in the backseat, arguing with a parking attendant, dropping a pizza box — and depicts them through the eyes of a mom struggling to cope.

Basically, a horror film. Every step and breath, casual or frantic, is laced with dread. Usually you shield your eyes when the serial killer’s broken into the house.

Here, I was terrified when Linda took a walk around the block. Byrne, who audiences tend to associate with comedies such as “Bridesmaids” and “Neighbors,” gives a career-best performance as Linda, the fraying parent of a young daughter who eats via feeding tube because of a disorder.