Sneak Preview: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
Event Date: January 14, 2012 - 3:00pm
Location: The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Opens in Los Angeles on Friday, January 20th, 2012!
Eva (Tilda Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15 , he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault? Based on the Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, this is the first film by Award-winning director Lynne Ramsay since MORVERN CALLAR (2002).
Q&A to follow with cinematographer Seamus McGarvey!
Please note the early screening time, Saturday at 3:00 PM.
"It's a domestic horror story that literally gets to us where we live, a disturbing tale told with uncompromising emotionality and great skill by filmmaker Lynne Ramsay." -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"The movie toggles between two periods-before and after a catastrophe-and, were it not for Swinton's magnetism, it would be unbearable. Instead, you'll want to stay for the wallop." -Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"There are so many great things happening on almost every level of this movie, from Swinton's haunting, magnetic and tremendously vulnerable performance, which is absolutely free of condescension to the suburban American wife-ness of her character, to the many unsettling individual moments." -Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"An exquisitely realized adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel. In a rigorously subtle performance as a woman coping with the horrific damage wrought by her psychopathic son, Tilda Swinton anchors the dialogue-light film with an expressiveness that matches her star turn in 'I Am Love.'" -Leslie Felperin, Variety
Official Selection, Cannes International Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection, Telluride International Film Festival
Best Film, Athens International Film Festival
Official Selection, Chicago International Film Festival
Official Selection, Mill Valley International Film Festival
Official Selection, Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay
WRITERS: Lynne Ramsay & Rory Kinnear (screenplay); Lionel Shriver (novel)
STARRING: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
Oscilloscope Laboratories
35mm, 112 min.
