Life & LuxuryArts & CultureStreamingPrint articleOpinionThe antiheroines taking over our screensMummy is going away for a while. The antiheroine of the moment, in films such as The Lost Daughter and Scenes From a Marriage commits the mother’s ultimate sin: abandoning her children.Amanda Hess and Liana FinckJan 19, 2022 – 5.00amSaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginThere are so many ways to do motherhood wrong, or so a mother is told. She can be overbearing or remote. She can smother or neglect.She can mother in such a specifically bad way that she is assigned a bad-mum archetype: stage mother, refrigerator mother, “cool mum.”Loading...SaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginIntroducing your NewsfeedFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreStreamingReviewFilm & TV productionMotherhoodOpinionLatest In Arts & CultureFetching latest articlesMost Viewed In Life and luxuryThe Australian Financial Review MagazineThe top whisky you can buy without going on a waiting listMax AllenThe luxury travel trend you probably haven’t consideredThe restaurant that’s turning back the clock (in the best way)BOSS Financial ReviewForget WFH – what it’s really like to ‘work from anywhere’Rachael BoltonThe US governance model taking over Australian boardroomsThis CEO wakes at 5am, but doesn’t get in to work till 10amLife & LeisureFlinching at a hybrid Porsche? This new one suggests you’re wrongTony DavisThese travel headphones have removed their silliest featureNeed travel inspiration? Follow the fashion crowdRich ListBillionaires Escalante and Arnaout taking liberties with ASICPrimrose RiordanCinema giant flags part-sale of Sydney’s George Street complexAnnie Cannon-Brookes steps out on her own