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We need to talk about Kevin Il faut qu'on parle de Kevin
Feature film from the USA. Drama. Screen adaptation of the Lionel Shriver novel. The mother of a teenage murderer struggles to come to terms with her past and to find her place in society.
In a series of brutally introspective missives to her husband, Franklin, from whom she is separated, Eva tries to come to grips with the fact that their 17-year-old son, Kevin, has killed seven students and two adults with his crossbow. Guiltily she recalls how, as a successful writer, she was terrified of having a child. Was it for revenge, then, that from the moment of his birth Kevin was the archetypal difficult child, screaming for hours, refusing to nurse, driving away countless nannies, and intuitively learning to "divide and conquer" his parents? When their daughter, loving and patient Celia, is born, Eva feels vindicated; but as the gap between her view of Kevin as a "Machiavellian miscreant" and Franklin's efforts to explain away their son's aberrant behavior grows wider, they find themselves facing divorce. In crisply crafted sentences that cut to the bone of her feelings about motherhood, career, family, and what it is about American culture that produces child killers, Shriver yanks the reader back and forth between blame and empathy, retribution and forgiveness. Never letting up on the tension, Shriver ensures that, like Eva, the reader grapples with unhealed wounds.
A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller).Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness. Ramsay's masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We need to talk about Kevin
Eva a mis sa vie professionnelle et ses ambitions personnelles entre parenthèses pour donner naissance à Kevin. La communication entre mère et fils s'avère d'emblée très compliquée. À l'aube de ses 16 ans, il commet l'irréparable. Eva s'interroge alors sur sa responsabilité. En se remémorant les étapes de sa vie avant et avec Kevin, elle tente de comprendre ce qu'elle aurait pu ou peut-être dû faire. (Jaquette).
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Il faut qu'on parle de Kevin
We need to talk about Kevin (Motion picture)
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Nadat haar bijna 16-jarige zoon op zijn middelbare school acht mensen heeft vermoord, kijkt zijn moeder terug op zijn kindertijd in een poging een verklaring voor zijn gedrag te vinden.
Il faut qu'on parole de Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin Musimy porozmawiać o Kevinie
Eva hat alles aufgegeben, um ihren Sohn Kevin zu bekommen. Doch von Anfang an war die Beziehung zwischen Mutter und Sohn schwierig. Als Kevin ausrastet und in seiner Schule ein Massaker anrichtet, steht Eva vor einem Scherbenhaufen, der einst ihr Leben war. Denn sie fühlt sich für die Tat ihres Kindes mitverantwortlich. Hat sie den Jungen wirklich je geliebt? Wie viel Schuld hat sie selbst auf sich geladen?
Feature films
"Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined"--www.imdb.com.
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Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
We need to talk about Kevin [KIT]
"Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined."--Imdb.
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Drama
A mother struggles to form a loving relationship with her son despite his increasingly violent actions as he grows up.
We need to talk about Kevin : [regular print book discussion kit] : a novel
Films for the hearing impaired
We need to talk about Kevin Il faut qu'on parole de Kevin
General fiction
"An exquisitely realised adaptation of Lionel Shriver's international best-seller, We Need To Talk About Kevin is told through the eyes of Eva, an anguished mother who struggles to connect with her son, Kevin. Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to have Kevin, and their relationship is difficult from the very start. When Kevin commits an unthinkable, iredeemable act, Eva grapples with her failings as a parent while attempting to build her life..."--Container.
We need to talk about Kevin Mummy's little monster
Book discussion kit
We need to talk about Kevin [wir müssen über Kevin reden]
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.
This thriller explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son.
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault.
Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay directs this adaptation of the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver. Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, the afflicted and angst-ridden mother who fails to bond with her son Kevin (played at the various stages of his childhood by Rock Duer, Jasper Newell and Ezra Miller) from his birth onwards. Now estranged from her former husband Franklin (John C. Reilly), Eva struggles to deal with her grief, isolation and feelings of responsibility after Kevin's sociopathic behaviour reaches new heights with a high school killing spree.
In a series of letters to her husband, Eva Khatchadourian examines their past in order to understand the reason their son Kevin chose to go on a killing spree a few days before he turned sixteen. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex.
Kentucky. Department for Libraries and Archives.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.