Signature Screenings
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
With the whiplash pace of a thriller, writer and director Mary Bronstein takes audiences into a breathtakingly inventive, unexpectedly funny, and startlingly relatable fever-dream of parental anxiety. Rose Byrne gives a one-of-a-kind cinematic portrait of ultra-pressurized motherhood as Linda, an overwhelmed therapist who finds herself in a state of frenzy and obsessive dread as she grapples with a mounting series of head-spinning crises: navigating her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her own therapist. The result is a gripping tale of personal horror and a moving illumination of that moment in life when it all becomes too much. An A24 release.
Actor Rose Byrne will be presented with the Luminary Award. A Q&A with Byrne and director and writer Mary Bronstein immediately follows the screening.
DIRECTOR
Mary Bronstein
PRODUCERS
Sara Murphy
Ryan Zacarias
Josh Safdie
Eli Bush
Conor Hannon
Richie Doyle
WRITER
Mary Bronstein
CAST
Rose Byrne
Conan O’Brien
A$AP Rocky
Danielle Macdonald
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Mary Bronstein is a writer and director based in New York City known for her raw style, auteur approach, and focus on stories about complicated women. Her best-known work is the cult-classic Yeast. Bronstein’s second feature film is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. In addition to her film work, she has written original feminist theory for several academic publishers.