WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
A growing boy creates more and more problems. When he commits a monstrous crime, it is not so much he who has to deal with the consequences, but his tormented mother, a woman who cannot understand why her son did what he did.
Eva (nominated for a Golden Globe for this role by Tilda Swinton), a successful author of travel books, leaves behind her carefree life on the road - symbolized here by the Spanish fiesta La Tomatina - to marry the much more sedate Franklin (John C. Reilly). The woman becomes pregnant, struggling to cope with it entirely, and after giving birth to a child, she suffers from deep postpartum depression.
As if that weren't enough, her son from the very beginning intentionally gives her a hard time. Despite Eva surrounding him with love, the demonic little boy creates hell for her, sparing his father - interestingly - and pretending to be an angel in front of him. As a teenager, Kevin (Ezra Miller in a groundbreaking and widely praised performance) causes more and more disciplinary problems, culminating in the massacre he commits at school.
The third feature film by Lynne Ramsay, made in the United States based on the controversial 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's main competition, from where it began its triumphant march around the world and became one of the hottest titles of the season.
Through a series of puzzle-like flashbacks, the director depicts events that have turned the main character's past and present into a living nightmare, contrasted at the level of the sound layer with cheerful folk and rock 'n' roll hits. The horror - expressed in suggestive use of the color red (from tomatoes and paint, through police car lights and wine, to blood) - persists. Its end is not in sight.
Rafał Glapiak
The screening will be followed by a meeting with the director Lynne Ramsay.
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