We Need to Talk About Kevin (Tenemos que hablar de Kevin), Lynne Ramsay, Reino Unido, 2011, 110'
Adaptation of the homonyme book by Lionel Shriver, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin is another of the films chosen by Agnès Varda in as Carte Blanche.
The film critic Adrian Martin talks about the film from redness, flashbacks and the Alien and puts the director in dialogue with Asia Argento, Virginie Despentes, Stanley Kubrick or Kristof Kieslowski.
Eva puts aside her ambitions and her professional career to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and child is complicated from the first years. When Kevin is 15 years old he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the whole community. Eva struggles with her own feelings of pain and responsibility. Did she ever really love her own son? How much of what Kevin did was his mother's fault?
"Ramsay is determined to focus on one thing above all: the figure of Eva as a wife and mother who does not fit - therefore, in the eyes of society, she is not good enough to be considered a mature woman-. Those who, in the scheme of the film, try to ignore or reject the centrality of Eva's powerful desires (to leave, to regain the ecstasy of youth and love, to have "a room of her own") and her equally powerful feelings of hate (for the role of mother, for the incessant frustrations that Kevin puts in his way and, sometimes, for Kevin himself) are denying what makes this work so powerful and meaningful. "Adrian Martin.
2011: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best British Film, Director and Actress (Swinton)
2011: Festival de Cannes: Official Section to contest
Adaptation of the homonyme book by Lionel Shriver, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin is another of the films chosen by Agnès Varda in as Carte Blanche.