• We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • Kill the Day

We Need to Talk About Kevin

BAMPFA Collection

  • In Person
featuring

Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell,

Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller star in this “domestic horror story” about a family whose young son commits a horrendous act and the mother who replays every maternal moment that could have influenced it. Based on the prize-winning novel by Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation turns the focus onto the grieving mother, ostracized and nearly living like a mournful ghost as she bears the brunt of a community’s wrath. Swinton is, as always, impeccable in this “disturbing tale told with uncompromising emotionality and great skill by Ramsay” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). 

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Lynne Ramsay
  • Rory Stewart Kinnear
Based On
  • the novel by Lionel Shriver

Cinematographer
  • Seamus McGarvey
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 111 mins
Source
  • BAMPFA
Permission
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
Preceded By

Kill the Day

Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom, 1996

Ramsay’s elliptical depiction of addiction is “a vérité-visceral look into the mundane reality of a drug user . . .  caught in a metaphorical (and . . . literal) prison sentence." (Willow Maclay, Village Voice). 

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • 18 mins

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