Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood

Trouble in Paradise – The Myth of Motherhood

2024 · 72 min · ★ 5.0 · Documentary

Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.

Directed by Patricia Froes · Written by Patricia Froes

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