16/03/12…We Need To Talk About Kevin at Thame Cinema 4 All

TOMORROW: Friday, March 16 – We Need To Talk About Kevin; 112 mins, 15 cert. Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Starring Ezra Miller, John C Reilly, Tilda Swinton

WHAT happens when bad children happen to good parents? Does it mean they are not, in fact, as good as they had imagined themselves to be?

With these questions, British director Lynne Ramsay has created a nihilist tale of guilt and horror. Working with co-writer Rory Kinnear, she has adapted Lionel Shriver?s prizewinning 2003 novel ? whose much-spoofed title is now part of the language ? about a woman whose teenage son Kevin has committed a Columbine-style massacre.

And what does an independent-minded, career woman do when she is landed with a nasty little boy, precisely the kind of smug competitive male she has spent her whole life trying to subdue and surpass?

What American Psycho was to consumerism, We Need to Talk About Kevin is to both sexism and feminism, a brilliantly extreme parable, operatically pessimistic. In the end, the audience is left with the same unanswerable question: what made Kevin do it? Nature or nurture? A mother supplies both. Kevin is flesh of her flesh and perhaps an inability to judge him is her awful biological destiny.

It is tremendously acted by Tilda Swinton and by Ezra Miller, with inspired images from cinematographer Seamus McGarvey. A beautifully made and thought- provoking film.

Thame Cinema is based in the Thame Players Theatre in Nelson Street Thame.

All films start at 8pm (unless otherwise stated) and doors open 30 minutes before each film. Admission is just