'What’s surprising about 'Saint Frances' is how bad it could have been.'
a series exploring the good, bad, and outright deranged films and events our editors are attending. This week: Shanti Escalante heads to Alex Thompson’s surprisingly touching abortion film,opens with our lead, Bridget , listening to a man describing a dream he had. In it, he wanders halls looking for his kids and then realizes he’s not at home but in some dank Brooklyn walkup. It dawns on him that he had never started his family or invested in the company that made him rich.
As a college dropout with no partner, no career, and no baby, Bridget’s life provokes an endless onslaught of criticism and pity from her peers and, of course, her mother. Contrary to these pressures, Bridget gets a medical abortion without a second thought—she’s not ready to be a mother yet. She tucks the pills into her mouth, and she and her sort-of boyfriend spend the rest of the day readingand medical pamphlets together. She occasionally gets up to change her maxi pad.
We shift gears and the movie really begins. Bridget enters a world of motherhood when she starts nannying for a lesbian couple who have an infant son and a five-year-old daughter named Frances . The film immediately exposes the dirty surprises that come with raising young children: postpartum depression, leaky bladders, and an itch to throw your baby against a wall after another sleepless night.
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