We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Synopsis:
A traumatized mother struggles to adjust to one of those random atrocities in which she is somehow implicated, and looks back over her life with the son she could just never bring herself to love.
Review:
Abandon all hope ye who enter here', one feels like proclaiming to any expectant parents rash enough to want to see this film. Kaleidoscopically edited so that we constantly flit back and forth in time and are afforded glimpses of the tragedy we gradually begin to suspect, this is a precision tooled piece of cinema, out of focus when it wants to be, sharp and focused at other times, framing telling details with a painterly eye. Shots following one another have an associative power and complementary meaning, but sometimes only Miss Swinton's hairdo tells us where we are in time. A powerful film, with a stunning central performance, that uses a parent's helplessness in the face of childish monstrosity to deal with the arbitrariness of evil and our impotence to do anything about it.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Synopsis:
A traumatized mother struggles to adjust to one of those random atrocities in which she is somehow implicated, and looks back over her life with the son she could just never bring herself to love.
Review:
Abandon all hope ye who enter here', one feels like proclaiming to any expectant parents rash enough to want to see this film. Kaleidoscopically edited so that we constantly flit back and forth in time and are afforded glimpses of the tragedy we gradually begin to suspect, this is a precision tooled piece of cinema, out of focus when it wants to be, sharp and focused at other times, framing telling details with a painterly eye. Shots following one another have an associative power and complementary meaning, but sometimes only Miss Swinton's hairdo tells us where we are in time. A powerful film, with a stunning central performance, that uses a parent's helplessness in the face of childish monstrosity to deal with the arbitrariness of evil and our impotence to do anything about it.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Synopsis:
A traumatized mother struggles to adjust to one of those random atrocities in which she is somehow implicated, and looks back over her life with the son she could just never bring herself to love.
Review:
Abandon all hope ye who enter here', one feels like proclaiming to any expectant parents rash enough to want to see this film. Kaleidoscopically edited so that we constantly flit back and forth in time and are afforded glimpses of the tragedy we gradually begin to suspect, this is a precision tooled piece of cinema, out of focus when it wants to be, sharp and focused at other times, framing telling details with a painterly eye. Shots following one another have an associative power and complementary meaning, but sometimes only Miss Swinton's hairdo tells us where we are in time. A powerful film, with a stunning central performance, that uses a parent's helplessness in the face of childish monstrosity to deal with the arbitrariness of evil and our impotence to do anything about it.