We Need To Talk About Kevin is a disturbing and uncomfortable film; it focuses on the closed-down life of Eva Katchadourian (Tilda Swinton), a woman who’s living in a horrified, shell-shocked limbo (“coming to terms” doesn’t even begin to come close) in the aftermath of a Columbine-esque school massacre that’s been perpetrated by her son….
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Sam Mendes. Kate Winslow. See? I am not always low brow. In Revolutionary Road, the lovers of Titanic grow up and settle in the suburban precursor to American Beauty. It’s all picket fences, and grey commutes and cigarettes and martinis and shagging the secretary / next-door-neighbour. Prison with tupperware and a manicured lawn. April (Winslow)…
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