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Saturday, Aug 24, 2024
6:30 PM (129 mins)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
BAMPFA Collection
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In Person
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).
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
Event Accessibility
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