FACETS CINÉMATHÈQUE

March 2012

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.

Encore Theatrical
Engagement

WE NEED TO TALK
ABOUT KEVIN

WINNER
Best Film
BFI London
Film Fest

WINNER
Best Film
London
Film Fest

NOMINATED
Best Film
Cannes
Film Festival

WINNER
Best Actress
European
Film Awards

"A masterful film"
-Roger Ebert

"Scottish helmer Lynne Ramsay is back with a vengeance"
-Variety

"Intense and atmospheric...Swinton gives a raw, uncompromising performance"
-Time

"A disturbing tale told with uncompromising emotionality and great skill...The Oscar-winning Swinton's gifts are, of course, no secret, but this is a special performance, even for her"
-Los Angeles Times

"We Need to Talk about Kevin is thought-provoking, confident and fearless. It’s experimental but never alienating and horrific in all the right ways"
-TimeOut London

"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"
-TimeOut NY

"Beautiful and demonic...and the bad feelings it induces are likely to be accompanied by helpless and stricken admiration"
-New York Times

Recommended! "Magnificent"
-NewCity Chicago

A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller from director/co-writer Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar), We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her disturbed son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller).

Based on the eponymous best-selling novel (winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction), We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on an entirely new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's infernal compulsions. As the film artfully moves back and forth in time, Eva kaleidoscopically reflects on her tormented interactions with Kevin and her possible complicity. A once dynamic woman (and reluctant mother) who was forced to give up on her career, Eva now starts to question whether her resentment of Kevin and her husband (John C. Reilly), the largely oblivious partner in a bad marriage, could have ruined her son in early childhood. The result is partly a domestic tragedy, partly a horror story and partly a deeply claustrophobic and troubling portrait of a woman in crisis. As filmmaker Ramsay has said, "I'm at the age when I'm thinking about having children myself," she told an interviewer. "And that's when you ask questions about what that means, about your ultimate responsibilities."

Directed by Lynn Ramsay, UK, 2011, 112 mins.

Official site Roger Ebert Variety Los Angeles Times TimeOut London

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Showtimes:
Fri., Mar. 9 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Mar. 10-11 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Mar. 12-15 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Mar. 17-18 at 12:30 pm

Tickets:

$9 general admission
FREE for Facets Members!

For all Cinémathèque inquiries, contact Charles Coleman at 773.281.9075 or charles@facets.org

Artworks: National Endowment for the Arts

March 2012

WE NEED TO TALKABOUT KEVIN

WE NEED TO TALK
ABOUT KEVIN