After a hiatus, Michelle Pfeiffer returns in ‘mother!’

When Michelle Pfeiffer first read Darren Aronofsky’s script for “mother!” she had an understandable initial reaction.“I thought: What the hell is this?” recalls Pfeiffer.Aronofsky’s film is not in any way typical, nor is the kind of project you’d expect a long-absent actress like Pfeiffer to join as her first big-screen performance in five years. The film, intentionally shrouded in mystery, is a wild and weird odyssey by one of the movies’ expert c