After flying under the radar at this year's Sundance Film Festival, this tender tale of maternal longing and complex on-the-ground realities arrives in theaters.
Early on in “Earth Mama,” a quietly shattering first feature from writer-director Savanah Leaf, we find ourselves in a room with a Black woman named Gia as she spends time with her young son, Trey . It’s a drab, anonymous-looking room, with bare walls and a few toys scattered perfunctorily about, but Leaf and her cinematographer, Jody Lee Lipes, use the space to tell a story in intimate, heartrending miniature.
Gia is a single woman trying to regain custody of her two kids, who have been in foster care for some time. At present, she sees Shaynah and Trey for just one supervised hour a week; Gia spends the rest of her time working at a photo store and taking court-ordered classes meant to establish her fitness as a mother. Other details flicker briefly into the foreground: her history of drug use, the waning account balance on her phone card.
There’s an obvious contrast between these cheesy-idyllic visions of family togetherness and Gia’s struggle to be with her kids, but Leaf doesn’t hammer the point home. Instead, she allows Gia’s longing to just barely break the surface of her warmly smiling, unfailingly professional demeanor. At key moments, the movie breaks with realism entirely, drawing us into its heroine’s subconscious with surreal yet oddly becalmed flourishes. Gia dreams of a small stump of umbilical cord sprouting from her own navel; later, she wanders, pregnant and naked, through a shadowy forest glade, a place of darkly enveloping refuge.
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