Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Fiction Factory, Second Sight Films
Maternal Overdrive on the Web:Official Website
Maternal Overdrive
23 minDocumentary
Plot
Todd Haynes, who considers Max Ophuls’ THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) one of his ten favorite films of all time, gives a wonderful 22 minute introduction of the film, titled "Maternal Overdrive," a term he uses to describe the state of the protagonist, Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett).
