Synopsis
A Mouthful of Air (2021) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM. Writer-director Amy Koppelman adapted her own novel: it's 1995, and Julie Davis writes bright children's books, has a loving husband, and has just had a baby. From the outside, everything is fine.
Amanda Seyfried plays Julie with a controlled stillness that makes the film's tension accumulate rather than announce itself. Finn Wittrock is her husband, Paul Giamatti her father, Jennifer Carpenter and Britt Robertson the women in her life — all of them caring, none of them able to reach her. Postpartum depression doesn't arrive with a dramatic score. It just sits there.
Koppelman doesn't resolve the film tidily, and that restraint is what makes it land. It's a portrait of invisible suffering that refuses to be clinical. Stream A Mouthful of Air (2021) online on iFILM.
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