We Need to Talk About Kevin is Best Film at London Film Festival
The movie adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin , the 2003 novel of American author Lionel Shriver is the winner of the best film at the 55th BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday. The novel won the Orange Prize for fiction in 2005. The British-American film described by Mike Collett-White as an unflinching portrayal of a mother's troubled relationship with her son featured Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, starring as Eva, Kevin's mother Kevin (Ezra Miller), 15, commits a massacre at his high school and goes to jail. Stunned, his mother, Eve (Tilda Swinton) can only react to tragedy when it begins to correspond with her husband, Franklin (John C. Reilly), who lives far and recalls the boy's troubled past. We Need to Talk about Kevin premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival, was directed by Scottish film maker Lynne Ramsay. It beat eight other films, including Russian Alexander Sokurov’s Faust that won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. ...