WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
LYNNE RAMSAY United Kingdom, 2011
Tilda Swinton chills as an ice-cold avatar of maternal resentment and regret in Lynne Ramsay’s reckoning with familial dysfunction. Draped in chiaroscuro lighting, deliberately sparse domestic spaces eerily evoke the tension between nature and nurture, and the characters’ vacant emotional lives.
