We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Country: United Kingdom

2011 | 112 min. | English
Subtitles: German
FSK 16

Cast_ Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell Screenplay_ Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear Camera_ Seamus McGarvey Producer_ Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Stephen Soderbergh, Christine Langan, Paula Jalfon Rights_ Independent Entertainment

A movie as red as blood about the consequences of a terrible deed. Tilda Swinton as a mother who desperately tries to build a bond with her child – and fails.

Kevin is a tormentor from birth. As a baby he is a screamer and everything he does from then on seems to be aimed at making his mother’s life hell. Whereas to his father (John C. Reilly), who refuses to recognize his offspring’s problematic development, he plays the part of the ever-loving son.

Lynne Ramsay’s third feature is not only a haunting, cinematically extraordinary portrait of the relationship between a mother and her sociopath child. It also illustrates the inability of a family – indeed of an entire society – of talking about such issues. With devastating consequences.

Director

Lynne Ramsay, born in Glasgow in 1969, is an multi award-winning director and screenwriter. Her first three short films ›Small Deaths‹ (1996), ›Kill the Day‹ (1996) and ›Gasman‹ (1998) already won several awards. This was followed by her feature film debut ›Ratcatcher‹ in 1999, which won her the British BAFTA Award. By 2017, she had made three more feature films, ›Morvern Callar‹ (2002), ›We Need to Talk About Kevin‹ (2011) and ›You Were Never Really Here‹ (2017), which each mark a milestone in cinema history in their own right. For 2025, ›Die, My Love‹ with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson has been announced.

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