If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Dir: Mary Bronstein, 2025, USA, 113 mins, Cert: 15
Wed 18 March // 20:00
Tickets: £5
A bracing, darkly comic pressure‑cooker of a film from Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You dives headfirst into the chaos of modern caregiving, drawing out the absurdity that bubbles beneath crisis.
Linda is a therapist barely holding her life together as she navigates a collapsing house with a mysteriously unwell child and absent partner. As the walls close in, the film slips between psychological horror and frazzled comedy, building a world where stress isn’t a subplot but an atmosphere you breathe. Bronstein’s direction turns everyday panic into something uncanny, surreal, and deeply human.
We’ve long admired Bronstein’s fierce intelligence as a filmmaker and her ability to illuminate women’s interior lives with honesty, discomfort, and unexpected humour. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a major leap forward: a work that refuses easy catharsis, instead offering a portrait of burnout, responsibility, and the invisible labour of care. It’s bold, breathless, and anchored by one of the year’s most ferocious performances from Rose Byrne.
Winner: Golden Globe for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
Winner: Silver Bear - Best Leading Performance, Berlin Film Festival 2025
★★★★★ "Rose Byrne is sweat-inducingly epic in this tour de force of matriarchal power...Mary Bronstein crafts a thriller of teeth-grinding magnificence" Time Out
★★★★★ "Hilarious and harrowingly brilliant" IndieWire
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