WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Special Screenings

Director Lynne Ramsay (RATCATCHER, MORVERN CALLAR) steps behind the camera for the first time in nine years to tell the fragmented story of a woman living a waking nightmare, coming to terms with the reality that her son was a high school spree killer. Tilda Swinton gives a remarkable performance as Eva, a reluctant mother whose life is shattered beyond repair by her son’s Columbine-like atrocity. Her situation is every parent’s worst fear: The child that you have raised has turned into a monster. Eva is left with no option but to replay the fragments of Kevin’s life and ponder her role in his unspeakable acts. Haunted by guilt and confronted by bereaved parents, how is it possible to go on with your life? Ramsay’s film offers no easy answers, but instead examines with her deft eye the emotional and societal consequences of what we bring into the world.