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It’s intriguing that the designer of Oscilloscope’s We Need To Talk About Kevin poster chose to show Jasper Newell, who has very little screen time as the very young Kevin, rather than the utterly demonic-looking Ezra Miller, who has the much larger role of the teenaged Kevin.
From my 5.12.11 Cannes Film Festival review: “As far as Ramsay’s film is concerned Kevin is just a steely-brained, black-eyed Beelzebub who’s been brought to life in order to pour acid into people’s lives. His ultimate acts of destruction happen at the very end, but they’re pretty much anti-climactic given the certainty in the audience’s mind that the only humane and compassionate response to this kid early on would have been to put him in a burlap bag, fill it with rocks and toss it off a pier.”
Oscilloscope is trying an odd qualifying strategy for this movie: they’re doing a one-week engagement at CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax from 12/9 – 12/15!
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/lynne-ramsays-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-one-week-engagement/#we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-1209-230pm
I don’t know whether they anticipated that the better-known theatres would be already booked up, or that they were so happy with the previous advance screenings they held at CineFamily that they wanted to reward them, or perhaps they looked at their grosses for DOGTOOTH and thought this would concentrate that demographic to them.
In whatever case, this is a major coup for Hadrian and company, and I’m very happy for them.
This movie is almost laugh-out-loud stupid. It’s unbelievable to me that people come away from it feeling their is any relation to the real world.
Jeff is right, this kid pops out of the womb as Beelzebub.
Somethin’s wrong with the Beaver.
In fact,I was quite sympathetic to this handsome guy,huh, huh, support what I believe many people are concerned about him and hope he can do better.
Saw this last night, coincidentally just after catching up with ‘Cyrus’ ; an impromptu John C Reilly double bill. You could almost imagine ‘Kevin’ as a darker sequel to ‘Cyrus’ given his similar performances in both – in which case JEEZ do things go downhill for JCR..!
Highly recommend ‘Kevin’ – Swinton & Miller are excellent and young Kevin is totally believable as being Miller’s younger incarnation. Visually striking at points, thought provoking on a few levels and affecting without feeling especially ‘worthy’.
However, I did comment to a friend (who agreed) after the film that Ezra Miller – great though he is – is onscreen much less than ‘young Kevin’.
The very fact that this has sparked the most inspired series of posters of any mainstream film this year is a testament to it being one of the most aesthetically significant movies of the entire year that deserves to be studied in film schools for years to come. Ramsay and co. completely overhauled the source material and hollowed out its structure and any semblance of narration to let Seamus McGarvey’s creepily vivid camerawork do the talking in ways that words wouldn’t do justice to in an enormous achievement of adaptation that begs for recognition this awards season. Swinton’s hauntingly internalized performance hits emotional notes that I didn’t even know existed. For anyone to have felt that it should have any relation to the so-called “real world” is in itself laugh-out-loud stupid. I feel sorry for them for not understanding how totally subjective the film is supposed to be towards Eva’s point of view perceiving the pain in her pregnancy and later seeing an evil and darkness in the child that she herself bore that no one seems to notice but her.
I also feel sorry for those of us who had to waste two hours watching this turgid slog.
I don’t know whether they anticipated that the better-known theatres would be already booked up, or that they were so happy with the previous advance screenings they held at CineFamily that they wanted to reward them, or perhaps they looked at their grosses for DOGTOOTH and thought this would concentrate that demographic to them.
In whatever case, this is a major coup for Hadrian and company, and I’m very happy for them.
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Saw this last night, coincidentally just after catching up with ‘Cyrus’ ; an impromptu John C Reilly double bill. You could almost imagine ‘Kevin’ as a darker sequel to ‘Cyrus’ given his similar performances in both – in which case JEEZ do things go downhill for JCR..!
Highly recommend ‘Kevin’ – Swinton & Miller are excellent and young Kevin is totally believable as being Miller’s younger incarnation. Visually striking at points, thought provoking on a few levels and affecting without feeling especially ‘worthy’.
However, I did comment to a friend (who agreed) after the film that Ezra Miller – great though he is – is onscreen much less than ‘young Kevin’. real estate
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I don’t know whether they anticipated that the better-known theatres would be already booked up, or that they were so happy with the previous advance screenings they held at CineFamily that they wanted to reward them, or perhaps they looked at their grosses for DOGTOOTH and thought this would concentrate that demographic to them.
In whatever case, this is a major coup for Hadrian and company, and I’m very happy for them. Las Vegas strip club package