CANNES – The movie entitled ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’, an entry for Cannes Film Festival is receiving praises from critics aside from the fact that it is the only entry with a British Title that is competing for the major award.
The movie tells about a mother who was played by Tilda Swinton who came into terms with her son’s part in a high school m(–foul word(s) removed–)acre.
Some of the quoted observations related to the movie were, from Variety which states,” it was an exquisitely realized adaptation of Lionel Shrivers best-selling novel,” while for Screen Daily, the movie is “compulsively powerful”.
At the press conference, Scottish movie director, Lynne Ramsay said that there is no violence in the movie. In fact, he mentioned that “every Hollywood movie is more violent than this (referring to ‘Kevin the movie).”
Ramsay at 41 is the director of the “psychological horror film” as stated by some.
Aside from being a horror movie, the ‘nightmare scenario’ as Swinton in her 50 said, the movie is not far from the everyday experience of being a parent.
Quoted, she said that, “it’s certainly a bloody business to have a family. And it is certainly a very bloody business being a parent, and it’s really a bloody business being a child.”
‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’ is one of the 20 entries vying for the very prestigious Palme d’Or Award – the highest award in Cannes.
BBC Films and the now defunct UK Film Council partly financed the mentioned movie.
On the other hand, Cannes is really star-studded. Spotted in Cannes Film Fest where the featured voice of Kung Fu Panda 2, the Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman, accompanied with the large fluffy panda and the trio where there to promote the sequel of the hit animated movie shown in 2008.