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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Country: UK, Language: English, 112 mins

  • Director: Lynne Ramsay
  • Writer: Lynne Ramsay; Rory Kinnear
  • Producer: Suzanne Baron; Jennifer Fox

CGiii Comment

Lynne Ramsay, the darling of British cinema, delivers beautifully painted misery.

Mammoth book...expectations, soaringly high.

Here, she fails to pull the intensity into the realm of interest. There is no evolution of character...Kevin is a little shit and he just grows into a bigger shit. His mother is angry, frustrated and inept...she grows even more so...verging on the catatonic.

Psychotic sociopaths are usually interesting subject matter for a film - Ramsay manages monotony and monotone throughout - a whiff of subtext may have lifted this from the doldrums...he's a teenage boy with a warped mind for God's sake!

And, the word that will implant itself in your brain after the film has finished and been forgotten is...REPAINT.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the "incident". Once a successful travel writer, she is forced to take whatever job comes her way, which of late is as a clerk in a travel agency. She lives a solitary life as people who know about her situation openly shun her, even to the point of violent actions toward her. She, in turn, fosters that solitary life because of the incident, the aftermath of which has turned her into a meek and scared woman. That incident involved her son Kevin Khatchadourian, who is now approaching his eighteenth birthday. Eva and Kevin have always had a troubled relationship, even when he was an infant. Whatever troubles he saw, Franklin, Eva's complacent husband, just attributed it to Kevin being a typical boy. The incident may be seen by both Kevin and Eva as his ultimate act in defiance against his mother.

Cast & Characters

Tilda Swinton as Eva Khatchadourian;
John C. Reilly as Franklin;
Ezra Miller as Kevin, Teenager;
Jasper Newell as Kevin, 6-8 Years;
Rock Duer as Kevin, Toddler;
Ashley Gerasimovich as Celia;
Siobhan Fallon as Wanda;
Alex Manette as Colin;
Kenneth Franklin as Soweto;
Leslie Lyles as Smash Lady