![]() ![]() ![]() But Swinton has star power in the astronomical sense-a distinctive, unearthly intensity that’s all her own. I know there are those who find her too operatic, too actressy (I’ve taken them on in these pages) and it’s true that she’s not the sort to modestly disappear into her roles. (Or is it just that Eva believes she’s a pariah, and thus never approaches anyone?) The grinding sadness and squalor of her daily life are sharply evoked, but this frame story, with its emphasis on the numbed-out Eva as town scapegoat, makes its point a little too often.Įven in the film’s weaker stretches, the fierce presence of Tilda Swinton made it impossible to tear my eyes away. During the day she rouses herself just enough to get to her job at a small travel agency, where her coworkers treat her as a pariah. Her nights are spent in a drugged and wine-sloshed haze, staring at the bare linoleum in her lonely, underfurnished house. ![]() The movie Eva (played by Tilda Swinton) doesn’t hang out in cafés writing laceratingly honest, acidly funny letters-she’s not up to it, to put it mildly. It’s not the fragmentation of the narrative that’s the problem with We Need To Talk About Kevin it’s the content of some of those fragments, especially those involving the grief-addled mother in the present day. That sounds great on paper, and for patches of the film, Ramsay’s scrapbook-left-out-in-the-rain approach makes for moments of great power and beauty. ![]()
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