Unpacking the Monsters of Jennifer Kent

You need to see The Babadook + The Nightingale.

Writer/Director Jennifer Kent

Jennifer Kent makes movies that hurt. The physical and psychological explorations of pain and its manifestations are the crux of her work. From the loss of a loved one to the loss of one’s country, she leaves no stone unturned in her rumination on grief. The films she makes are brutal, honest, and real. No one is exempt from the horrors of life and…