Capital Celluloid 2015 - Day 136: Sat May 16

Mommy (Dolan, 2014): Regent Street Cinema, May 16th, 2pm and 6.30pm


This screens at the new Regent Street Cinema in a double-bill with Appropriate Behaviour. The programme is also being shown on 15th May. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Born in 1989, French-Canadian writer-director Xavier Dolan ranks as the most accomplished young dramatic filmmaker in North America, and this engrossing character study, his fifth feature, demonstrates an emotional perspicacity one might expect from an artist many years his senior. The main characters are a brash young widow (Anne Dorval), her unmanageably obnoxious and violent teenage son (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), and their neighbor, who gets pulled into their little world to her mixed pleasure and dismay (Suzanne Clément). Both mother and son are aggressive, uncompromising people, though the mother's fierce commitment to her child is both motivated and compromised by the bitter life lessons she's endured. Most of this unfolds in a square frame, a distracting and, to my mind, pointless innovation; the movie is distinguished not by its height or its width, but by its depth.
JR Jones

Here (and above) is an extract.

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