CANNES, France. Everyone talks in Cannes for the film "We need to talk about Kevin." And the director Lynne Ramsay not surprised by the strong reaction it has provoked.
After all, this is a teenager who committed a slaughter in a school and the intense suffering of his mother.
Some call it heartbreaking, or raw, or poetic. But Ramsay does not understand why anyone would describe it as violent.
director sees it as "a psychological horror film." Like the best thrillers, terror in our minds.
See what's new from the film "There is no violence in this film," Ramsay told reporters today after the first screening of the film at the Cannes Film Festival. "You only see the consequences. Any Hollywood movie is more violent than this." Ramsay
also cares for comparisons with other films on youth violence, and "Elephant", Gus van Sant film inspired by the slaughter at Columbine High School in Colorado, United States, which took the Palme d'Or, the Cannes top prize in 2003.
"Elephant" is a film about a school shooting, "said Ramsay." This is a film about a mother and a son. "
Intimacy of this linkage might explain why" Kevin "has been bothered some spectators. The film stars Tilda Swinton, who plays Eva, a woman petrified by guilt and pain, a constant reminder of her son's childhood for clues that might explain why he chose to commit mass murder, and if the tragedy is his fault.
"The whole film is about guilt," said Ramsay.
Swinton said his character is haunted by the idea that his son "gave birth to their own violence."
"It's like a nightmare, but not so far from the daily experience of parenting," said Swinton, who won an Oscar for "Michael Clayton" and whose chilling performance makes it one of the early favorites for the best actress award at Cannes.
"It's a complicated matter, having a family," said Swinton, mother of twins.
The film is both lush and dark, and he shed many red liquid. But rarely is blood. It shows, for example, paint thrown at the home of Eva by people looking torment or, in the opening scene, a war of tomatoes at La Tomatina, a festival in Bunol, Spain.
The film also has its retractors, but Stewart Rory Kinnear, one of the writers and husband of Ramsay says that the movie goes where many fear to go.
"I think the idea of \u200b\u200ba mother who loves her son is one of the last remaining taboo, and something that people do not want to talk, "he said.
Based on the novel by American author Lionel Shriver, who lives in Britain, Ramsay prefers to say that his work is" inspired "by the book rather than an adaptation. "Kevin" is the only British film competing for the Palme d'Or, which is also measured "The skin I live" by Pedro Almodóvar, in English only film in the competition including central festival.
Ramsay tape is set in suburban America and also has the performances of John. C. Reilly, as well-intentioned husband of Eve and Ezra Miller 18, and Kevin. Ramsay stunned
Cannes in 1999 with his debut feature "Ratcatcher." His second film, "Morvern Callar" of 2002 was also well received, but then spent five years working on an adaptation of "The Lovely Bones, before the project passed into the hands of the director of" The Lord of the Rings " Peter Jackson.
"We have to talk about Kevin" is his first feature in nine years. (Associated Press).
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