Chicago – Many critics failed to take Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin” seriously, dismissing it as an art house retread of “The Omen.” Such a simplistic label fails to take into account the film’s carefully textured portrait of a deeply fractured mother-son relationship. Though the film takes its premise to melodramatic extremes, it does harbor considerable insight into the repercussions of a disconnect between parent and child.
Eva (Tilda Swinton) is the sort of mother who causes strangers to wince while passing her in the supermarket. She can barely contain the intense dislike that she feels for her child. Motherhood is a form of entrapment in her eyes, and her attempts to care for her young son lack any sense of genuine compassion. When she snaps on a hollow smile to calm her crying son, the moment is both chilling and darkly funny. It only gets...
Eva (Tilda Swinton) is the sort of mother who causes strangers to wince while passing her in the supermarket. She can barely contain the intense dislike that she feels for her child. Motherhood is a form of entrapment in her eyes, and her attempts to care for her young son lack any sense of genuine compassion. When she snaps on a hollow smile to calm her crying son, the moment is both chilling and darkly funny. It only gets...
- 6/1/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Lynne Ramsay likes to trudge through the dark depths of the human spirit, and after a nine year period without a film in the can, she’s made a return to form that surpasses her early work in nearly every way. We Need To Talk About Kevin is a masterfully made, soul pummeling psychological drama about the depth of motherly responsibility, and the malicious psychopathy of unwavering evil. Her third feature shines with a power house performance by the always wonderful Tilda Swinton, as well as strong showings by a cast of different aged kids (from eldest to youngest – Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, and Rocky Duer) that portray her utterly terrifying son with unhinged brilliance. But it’s not just the astute acting that shines. Ramsay’s choice in seamless non-linearity, and a striking visual palette that constantly prophesies the violent climax we all knew was inevitable, culminate to make...
- 5/30/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
We were very much on the fence for a long time in terms of covering We Need to Talk About Kevin, and I'm glad we came to our senses because what we have here is a truly chilling tale of madness. The good news? You can see it for yourself this May!
We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, and Ashley Gerasimovich.
Per DVD Active, Oscilloscope Pictures has announced DVD ($29.99) and Blu-ray ($34.99) releases of We Need to Talk About Kevin for May 29th. Extras will include extra footage from the famous "La Tomatina" tomato festival in Spain, an interview with author Lionel Shriver, two featurettes ("Behind the Scenes of Kevin", "In Conversation - Telluride Film Festival Honors Tilda Swinton"), the original theatrical trailer, and an exclusive essay by psychologist Mark Stafford.
Synopsis
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite...
We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, and Ashley Gerasimovich.
Per DVD Active, Oscilloscope Pictures has announced DVD ($29.99) and Blu-ray ($34.99) releases of We Need to Talk About Kevin for May 29th. Extras will include extra footage from the famous "La Tomatina" tomato festival in Spain, an interview with author Lionel Shriver, two featurettes ("Behind the Scenes of Kevin", "In Conversation - Telluride Film Festival Honors Tilda Swinton"), the original theatrical trailer, and an exclusive essay by psychologist Mark Stafford.
Synopsis
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite...
- 4/2/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We were on the fence about covering Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin for a long time around here because we weren't sure how much of a horror flick it is. Having just seen it, we are happy to report that, yes, it's well within our genre, and we dug it a lot!
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We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, and Ashley Gerasimovich. Look for it in limited theatrical release opening wider each week.
Synopsis
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up.
So much so that we set out to score you cats a chance to win yourself the special limited edition one-sheet for the flick. To enter, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest.
We Need to Talk About Kevin stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, and Ashley Gerasimovich. Look for it in limited theatrical release opening wider each week.
Synopsis
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up.
- 3/8/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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Quite deliberately, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) provokes discussion. Why is Kevin evil? Was he born that way? Did his mother make him that way by withholding love? Is he a manifestation of his mother’s own hatred toward humanity? Questions one could argue that director Lynne Ramsay and screenwriter Rory Kinnear (adapted from Lionel Shriver’s novel) never intended their audience to be able to answer satisfactorily.
To describe the film as ‘arty’ would be doing everyone involved a disservice, but there is no getting away from its obvious stylisation. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer Judy Becker and costume designer Catherine George deserve credit for combing their talents to form a cohesive palette which incorporates flashes, splashes and swathes of deep red. Incidentally, Lynne Ramsay...
Quite deliberately, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) provokes discussion. Why is Kevin evil? Was he born that way? Did his mother make him that way by withholding love? Is he a manifestation of his mother’s own hatred toward humanity? Questions one could argue that director Lynne Ramsay and screenwriter Rory Kinnear (adapted from Lionel Shriver’s novel) never intended their audience to be able to answer satisfactorily.
To describe the film as ‘arty’ would be doing everyone involved a disservice, but there is no getting away from its obvious stylisation. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer Judy Becker and costume designer Catherine George deserve credit for combing their talents to form a cohesive palette which incorporates flashes, splashes and swathes of deep red. Incidentally, Lynne Ramsay...
- 2/27/2012
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin made waves earlier this year when it played at the Cannes International Film Festival and the drama has enjoyed a slew of critical praise since. Focusing on the rearing of a child that goes horribly wrong at the hands of Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this is a film that asks more questions than it answers. In other words, it will spark discussion (or talk, if you will).
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking with Ramsay over the phone. We discussed a film with a similar premise, the difficulty with making the film, how they shot the opening sequence that depicts the La Tomatina festival, and much more. Below you can find the full transcript, and you can look for the film in limited release now.
The Film Stage: First off, let me say that I loved the film.
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking with Ramsay over the phone. We discussed a film with a similar premise, the difficulty with making the film, how they shot the opening sequence that depicts the La Tomatina festival, and much more. Below you can find the full transcript, and you can look for the film in limited release now.
The Film Stage: First off, let me say that I loved the film.
- 1/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Chicago – The mother and son relationship is perhaps one of the most complicated ever invented. In giving birth to an opposing gender, the woman must then deal with a maturation process foreign to her own, with all the potential psychosis attached. Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller play the game in “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Adapted from a novel in bold emotional detail by director Lynn Ramsay, “Kevin” pulls no punches in following the mother/son conundrum from birth to adolescence, chronicling a born-to-be-bad social misfit and the desperate means he practices in the push-pull of dear old Mom. The Oedipal Complex – boy wants to have his mother and kill his father – is also thematically on display, with stark ramifications for a combination of that theory with a modern, violent society.
The story is told in flashback through Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton), a woman who is living in...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Adapted from a novel in bold emotional detail by director Lynn Ramsay, “Kevin” pulls no punches in following the mother/son conundrum from birth to adolescence, chronicling a born-to-be-bad social misfit and the desperate means he practices in the push-pull of dear old Mom. The Oedipal Complex – boy wants to have his mother and kill his father – is also thematically on display, with stark ramifications for a combination of that theory with a modern, violent society.
The story is told in flashback through Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton), a woman who is living in...
- 1/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In the new film, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” there is a breakout performance that is simply mind-blowing. Playing opposite the conflicted mother – portrayed by the great Tilda Swinton – is Ezra Miller, as her son Kevin. The character is a teenager in crisis, motivated by forces beyond his control.
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” is remarkable because it casts no judgment as it presents the members of a typical American middle class family. In this circumstance, the son is born to be bad, and increases his erratic behavior in crossing over to adolescence. How Tilda Swinton reacts as his mother and John C. Reilly as his father is the consequence of a bad dream-like situation. The film is as real as it is exaggerated, and adds insight to the modern expectations of the “perfect” nuclear family.
Ezra Miller Rosins Up the Bow in ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin...
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” is remarkable because it casts no judgment as it presents the members of a typical American middle class family. In this circumstance, the son is born to be bad, and increases his erratic behavior in crossing over to adolescence. How Tilda Swinton reacts as his mother and John C. Reilly as his father is the consequence of a bad dream-like situation. The film is as real as it is exaggerated, and adds insight to the modern expectations of the “perfect” nuclear family.
Ezra Miller Rosins Up the Bow in ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin...
- 1/26/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
We Need to Talk About Kevin represents an immensely exciting piece of filmmaking from Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar). That might seem like an odd label for this adaptation of Lionel Shriver‘s best-selling novel, considering the relentlessly harrowing subject matter in question, but it’s hard to come up with any other phrase to describe the sheer vivacity of Ramsay‘s directorial approach. This is indeed a film that keeps your emotions in constant flux — terrorized by the actions of the titular character in one moment, happily floored by Ramsay’s consistently fresh choices the next.
It’s worth mentioning, too, that Ramsay, along with Rory Kinnear, wrote the film’s screenplay, which is a unique feat of adaptation in its own right. Like a few recent films — Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene jumps immediately to mind — We Need to Talk About Kevin bleeds the past into the present,...
It’s worth mentioning, too, that Ramsay, along with Rory Kinnear, wrote the film’s screenplay, which is a unique feat of adaptation in its own right. Like a few recent films — Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene jumps immediately to mind — We Need to Talk About Kevin bleeds the past into the present,...
- 1/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Countdown to Top Ten 2K11 is a column with one simple goal: to help you decide what films you need to see before making your end of the year top ten list. Each installment features my thoughts on a critically acclaimed 2011 movie, a sampling of other critics' reactions, the odds of the film making my own list, and the reasons why it might make yours.
This time we're covering "We Need to Talk About Kevin," the disturbing story of a mass murdering kid and his shell-shocked mom. But will this mother-son drama end up as the big daddy on your year-end top ten list? Let's find out.
Movie: "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Plot Synopsis: A woman struggles to come to grips with her teenage son's brutal crimes, which have left her a pariah and an outcast in her hometown.
What the Critics...
This time we're covering "We Need to Talk About Kevin," the disturbing story of a mass murdering kid and his shell-shocked mom. But will this mother-son drama end up as the big daddy on your year-end top ten list? Let's find out.
Movie: "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Plot Synopsis: A woman struggles to come to grips with her teenage son's brutal crimes, which have left her a pariah and an outcast in her hometown.
What the Critics...
- 12/14/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
We Need to Talk About Kevin Trailer. Lynne Ramsay‘s We Need to Talk About (2011) movie trailer stars John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon, and Ursula Parker. We Need to Talk About Kevin‘s plot synopsis: based on the book by Lionel Shriver, ”Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15 , he does something irrational and unforgiveable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?”
We previously posted the We Need to Talk About (2011) UK movie trailer.
We Need to Talk About Kevin also stars Ashley Gerasimovich, Lauren Fox, Jennifer Kim, James Chen, Anthony Del Negro, Jasper Newell, Kimberley Drummond, Joseph Melendez,...
We previously posted the We Need to Talk About (2011) UK movie trailer.
We Need to Talk About Kevin also stars Ashley Gerasimovich, Lauren Fox, Jennifer Kim, James Chen, Anthony Del Negro, Jasper Newell, Kimberley Drummond, Joseph Melendez,...
- 11/1/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Tilda Swinton leads an excellent cast in a thoughtful and deeply disturbing adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel
The general outline of Lionel Shriver's novel must be widely familiar by now. We Need to Talk About Kevin has been around for eight years, there's a brief synopsis of the plot on the cover of the paperback, and the film was widely discussed when it premiered in Cannes last May and to most people's surprise failed to win a major prize.
It is an astonishing, truly shocking book that connects unspoken terrors in the domestic world to social horrors exploding in public. It uses the epistolary method, which like the diary form was popular among early novelists as a way of giving fiction a documentary authenticity. In this case the letters are written by Eva Khatchadourian, an adventurous travel writer and tour organiser, to her absent husband. She's a classic unreliable narrator,...
The general outline of Lionel Shriver's novel must be widely familiar by now. We Need to Talk About Kevin has been around for eight years, there's a brief synopsis of the plot on the cover of the paperback, and the film was widely discussed when it premiered in Cannes last May and to most people's surprise failed to win a major prize.
It is an astonishing, truly shocking book that connects unspoken terrors in the domestic world to social horrors exploding in public. It uses the epistolary method, which like the diary form was popular among early novelists as a way of giving fiction a documentary authenticity. In this case the letters are written by Eva Khatchadourian, an adventurous travel writer and tour organiser, to her absent husband. She's a classic unreliable narrator,...
- 10/22/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
We Need To Talk About Kevin hits cinemas today, but there's still time for one last poster! And it's a rather unsettling one too, what with those Joker-friendly colours and Ezra Miller's disturbed and disturbing Kevin looking rather intense in the middle.The film, for those who haven't read the Lionel Shriver novel on which it's based, tells the story of Eva (Tilda Swinton), her son Kevin (Miller as a teenager; plus Jasper Newell and Rocky Duer as his younger incarnations) and her husband Franklin (John C. Reilly). It's largely told from Eva's point of view, as she looks back on the family's life following a monstrous tragedy.We Need To Talk About Kevin has already been wowing them at festivals all over the world, so get along and check it out.
- 10/21/2011
- EmpireOnline
Tilda Swinton generally never fails to impress audiences in anything she turns her hand to. Indeed, what can honestly be said about Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s riveting and utterly chilling book, We Need To Talk About Kevin, is that the role was written unquestionably for Swinton – or even the book’s character for that matter.
Shriver even quotes in the back of her book that the film adaptation is “well cast, beautifully shot and thematically loyal” to her novel. Any anomalies that arise from watching the film are purely subjective as a result of what you’ve already visualise while reading mother Eva’s (Swinton) story – and there are a few, perhaps, minor ones.
Travel journalist Eva never wanted to be a mother, certainly not to a boy who murders seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him.
Shriver even quotes in the back of her book that the film adaptation is “well cast, beautifully shot and thematically loyal” to her novel. Any anomalies that arise from watching the film are purely subjective as a result of what you’ve already visualise while reading mother Eva’s (Swinton) story – and there are a few, perhaps, minor ones.
Travel journalist Eva never wanted to be a mother, certainly not to a boy who murders seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him.
- 10/18/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We Need to Talk About Kevin UK Trailer. Lynne Ramsay‘s We Need to Talk About (2011) UK movie trailer stars John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon, and Ursula Parker. We Need to Talk About Kevin‘s plot synopsis: “Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15 , he does something irrational and unforgiveable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?”
I have been waiting for a good representation of We Need to Talk About Kevin to post and this UK movie trailer is it. It doesn’t give everything away from the book yet hints at the three acts of the film very cleverly through the editing.
I have been waiting for a good representation of We Need to Talk About Kevin to post and this UK movie trailer is it. It doesn’t give everything away from the book yet hints at the three acts of the film very cleverly through the editing.
- 8/15/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Updated through 5/17.
We Need to Talk About Kevin "heralds the rebirth of director Lynne Ramsay, who shot Ratcatcher in 1999, Morvern Callar in 2001 and then dropped clean off the map. She's been away too long." The Guardian's Xan Brooks finds this comeback "extraordinary — a maternal nightmare fired by a narrative that's not so much fractured as liquid; blending and folding its time-frame to mesmeric effect. Tilda Swinton is the middle-class American mum, toiling to process the actions of her sociopath son (Ezra Miller, positively sulphurous). Along the way, Ramsay's intense, distinctive visuals work a curious alchemy on Lionel Shriver's source novel, navigating a central conceit (the demon seed!) that in other hands might come across as crass and cheap."
"The novel was a series of letters, written by Eve (Swinton) to her husband in the aftermath of Kevin's actions; the film flickers and skips between moments like memory, or a bad dream,...
We Need to Talk About Kevin "heralds the rebirth of director Lynne Ramsay, who shot Ratcatcher in 1999, Morvern Callar in 2001 and then dropped clean off the map. She's been away too long." The Guardian's Xan Brooks finds this comeback "extraordinary — a maternal nightmare fired by a narrative that's not so much fractured as liquid; blending and folding its time-frame to mesmeric effect. Tilda Swinton is the middle-class American mum, toiling to process the actions of her sociopath son (Ezra Miller, positively sulphurous). Along the way, Ramsay's intense, distinctive visuals work a curious alchemy on Lionel Shriver's source novel, navigating a central conceit (the demon seed!) that in other hands might come across as crass and cheap."
"The novel was a series of letters, written by Eve (Swinton) to her husband in the aftermath of Kevin's actions; the film flickers and skips between moments like memory, or a bad dream,...
- 5/17/2011
- MUBI
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Written by: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller and Ashley Gerasimovich
Only slightly more prolific than fellow cinematic impressionist and Cannes competitor Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay’s third film in a dozen years (following 1999′s “Ratcatcher” and 2002′s “Morvern Callar”) is worth the wait and, indeed, a marvelous and moving work of art we need to talk about. Sustaining a disorienting rigor without losing its emotional focus, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” radically transforms the first-person storytelling of Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed 2003 bestseller — about a mother’s grief, guilt and ostracism after her teenage son orchestrates a high-school massacre — into a phantasmagoric tone poem and booby-trapped bad-seed drama.
Always remarkable but here a revelation, Tilda Swinton wears no monster makeup to play a zombie named Eva — that is,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Written by: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller and Ashley Gerasimovich
Only slightly more prolific than fellow cinematic impressionist and Cannes competitor Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay’s third film in a dozen years (following 1999′s “Ratcatcher” and 2002′s “Morvern Callar”) is worth the wait and, indeed, a marvelous and moving work of art we need to talk about. Sustaining a disorienting rigor without losing its emotional focus, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” radically transforms the first-person storytelling of Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed 2003 bestseller — about a mother’s grief, guilt and ostracism after her teenage son orchestrates a high-school massacre — into a phantasmagoric tone poem and booby-trapped bad-seed drama.
Always remarkable but here a revelation, Tilda Swinton wears no monster makeup to play a zombie named Eva — that is,...
- 5/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Written by: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller and Ashley Gerasimovich
Only slightly more prolific than fellow cinematic impressionist and Cannes competitor Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay’s third film in a dozen years (following 1999′s “Ratcatcher” and 2002′s “Morvern Callar”) is worth the wait and, indeed, a marvelous and moving work of art we need to talk about. Sustaining a disorienting rigor without losing its emotional focus, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” radically transforms the first-person storytelling of Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed 2003 bestseller — about a mother’s grief, guilt and ostracism after her teenage son orchestrates a high-school massacre — into a phantasmagoric tone poem and booby-trapped bad-seed drama.
Always remarkable but here a revelation, Tilda Swinton wears no monster makeup to play a zombie named Eva — that is,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Written by: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller and Ashley Gerasimovich
Only slightly more prolific than fellow cinematic impressionist and Cannes competitor Terrence Malick, Lynne Ramsay’s third film in a dozen years (following 1999′s “Ratcatcher” and 2002′s “Morvern Callar”) is worth the wait and, indeed, a marvelous and moving work of art we need to talk about. Sustaining a disorienting rigor without losing its emotional focus, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” radically transforms the first-person storytelling of Lionel Shriver’s acclaimed 2003 bestseller — about a mother’s grief, guilt and ostracism after her teenage son orchestrates a high-school massacre — into a phantasmagoric tone poem and booby-trapped bad-seed drama.
Always remarkable but here a revelation, Tilda Swinton wears no monster makeup to play a zombie named Eva — that is,...
- 5/16/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Adapted from a novel written by Lionel Shriver in 2003, We Need to Talk about Kevin is told from the prospective of a mother whose teenage son commits a massacre at his high school. The mother deals with the murders that her son has committed by frequently writing letters that discuss the nature of her child to her estranged husband. With beautiful cinematography and symbolism, Lynne Ramsay, a Scottish film director, has approached her third film in a distinct way. Ramsay grasped the concept of the story and created her own interpretation in this adaptation.
Dramatically opening with a striking scene where actress Tilda Swinton, who plays Eva, is submerged in a sea of smashed red tomatoes. The camera gives an overhead shot of Eva being carried away crucifix style by a group of people. As the scene quickly changes, we are reacquainted with the color red, as red paint covers...
Dramatically opening with a striking scene where actress Tilda Swinton, who plays Eva, is submerged in a sea of smashed red tomatoes. The camera gives an overhead shot of Eva being carried away crucifix style by a group of people. As the scene quickly changes, we are reacquainted with the color red, as red paint covers...
- 5/14/2011
- by Imani Carter
- The Film Stage
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
The two toughest questions out of the many I kept posing myself during yesterday morning’s press screening of Lynne Ramsay’s powerfully gripping and emotionally charged drama We Need To Talk About Kevin were;
1) Can someone be born evil?
2) What would it be like to be the mother??
Upon leaving the Lumiere theatre the answer to the first was a definite yes and the answer to the second you can only know having seen We Need To Talk About Kevin, a unique movie about overcoming extreme loss and perhaps not since Memento have I been so affected by a troubled and lost soul searching for answers at the back of the memory tank.
An adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s popular but harrowing 2003 novel, Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, the broken mother of her teenage son’s unimaginable decision to cause a cold-blooded massacre at his school.
The two toughest questions out of the many I kept posing myself during yesterday morning’s press screening of Lynne Ramsay’s powerfully gripping and emotionally charged drama We Need To Talk About Kevin were;
1) Can someone be born evil?
2) What would it be like to be the mother??
Upon leaving the Lumiere theatre the answer to the first was a definite yes and the answer to the second you can only know having seen We Need To Talk About Kevin, a unique movie about overcoming extreme loss and perhaps not since Memento have I been so affected by a troubled and lost soul searching for answers at the back of the memory tank.
An adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s popular but harrowing 2003 novel, Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, the broken mother of her teenage son’s unimaginable decision to cause a cold-blooded massacre at his school.
- 5/13/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Era Miller and Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin
Photo: BBC Films and UK Film Council We Need to Talk about Kevin opens with a ghostly backdoor drape wafting in the night breeze. The sound of a sprinkler echoes throughout the theater as we're drawn deeper into a bright ethereal light. White is soon replaced with red as we're whisked to the La Tomatina festival in Valencia, Spain. It's our first glimpse of Eva (Tilda Swinton) as she's carried on her back over the masses before she's lowered to the ground and showered with tomato pulp. Drenched in red. Alive. Laughing. Happy.
The scene flashes once again. We're placed in an unknown future. Eva's hair is longer. She's no longer smiling and her house and car have just been splattered with red paint. The metaphorical gore drips from her awning, kicking off one of the most elegant horror films I've ever seen.
Photo: BBC Films and UK Film Council We Need to Talk about Kevin opens with a ghostly backdoor drape wafting in the night breeze. The sound of a sprinkler echoes throughout the theater as we're drawn deeper into a bright ethereal light. White is soon replaced with red as we're whisked to the La Tomatina festival in Valencia, Spain. It's our first glimpse of Eva (Tilda Swinton) as she's carried on her back over the masses before she's lowered to the ground and showered with tomato pulp. Drenched in red. Alive. Laughing. Happy.
The scene flashes once again. We're placed in an unknown future. Eva's hair is longer. She's no longer smiling and her house and car have just been splattered with red paint. The metaphorical gore drips from her awning, kicking off one of the most elegant horror films I've ever seen.
- 5/12/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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