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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
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell,
Note: While previously scheduled to be in person, Lynne Ramsay will not be appearing for this screening due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict.
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
- Digital
- 18 mins
Event Accessibility
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