The Son (2019)

Lorenzo, a middle-aged painter with an ex-wife and estranged children, has found love again and they are expecting their first child together. She rejects a series of doctors and insists that -- since she's a scientist -- she can best administer her own prenatal care. The further along she gets, the more Lorenzo is removed from the decision-making. Eventually his studio is relocated to the attic and she's moved in her own childhood nanny, with whom she converses in Norwegian (which Lorenzo doesn't speak).

It's a highly effective film. It jumps back and forth between pre-birth and post, so we find out that there's a restraining order on Lorenzo and then jump back to see the lead-up to that event. I thought we were getting another one of those "guy with friends who love and trust him ridiculously refuse to believe him" movies, but as more of the story gets revealed, it's difficult not to sympathize with those friends.

Though the ending seems a bit abrupt and somewhat unresolved, I enjoyed the ride.

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