On the heels of being named Best Picture at the BFI London Film Festival, Oscilloscope has just sent over the official poster for Lynne Ramsay‘s We Need to Talk about Kevin, which I saw at Cannes back in May and instead of giving you a synopsis I’ll give you the two opening paragraphs to my review:
We Need to Talk about Kevin opens with a ghostly backdoor drape wafting in the night breeze. The sound of a sprinkler echoes throughout the theater as we’re drawn deeper into a bright ethereal light. White is soon replaced with red as we’re whisked to the La Tomatina festival in Valencia, Spain. It’s our first glimpse of Eva (Tilda Swinton) as she’s carried on her back over the masses before she’s lowered to the ground and showered with tomato pulp. Drenched in red. Alive. Laughing. Happy.
The scene flashes once again. We’re placed in an unknown future. Eva’s hair is longer. She’s no longer smiling and her house and car have just been splattered with red paint. The metaphorical gore drips from her awning, kicking off one of the most elegant horror films I’ve ever seen. We Need to Talk about Kevin is creepy, sophisticated and rippling with tension.
Oscilloscope has set an Oscar qualifying run on December 9th in New York/Los Angeles and it sounds like they’re hardly going to expand on that when it goes out officially on January 27, again only in New York and Los Angeles. However, that January 27 date is only three days after Oscar nominations are announced and if they can pull off some magic perhaps they can make sure Tilda Swinton gets a much deserved Oscar nomination for her performance. Hell, maybe even a Best Cinematography nomination for Seamus McGarvey… Maybe then they’ll expand it even wider so everyone can see this gem of a film.
I’ve included the poster directly below and you can check out my full review of the film from Cannes right here. Along with Swinton the film co-stars John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller as the film’s titular character, a nightmare of a child named Kevin.
