Domestic Violence

oh yeah and little boy blue with Ryan Phillipee- very good movie - well acted.

Yeah, it's called DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, and it's directed by Frederick Wiseman.

Plus (some of these are more about domestic despair, really):

Ken Loach: Family Life; Kes; Cathy Come Home; Ladybird Ladybird; Poor Cow
Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Roy Anderssen: Songs From the Second Floor
Urlich Siedl: Dog Days
Michael Haneke: The Moor's Head
Ingmar Bergman: Scenes Froma Marriage; Cries and Whispers; Shame; Hour of the Wolf; just about all of his films
Catherine Breillat: Romance; Fat Girl
Robert Bresson: Mouchette; L'Argent
John Cassavetes: Faces; Husbands; Opening Night
Alan Clarke: Scum; Made in Britian; The Firm (violence in society)
Terence Davies: Trilogy; Distant Voices, Still Lives
Bill Douglas: Trilogy
Carine Adler: Under the Skin
Carl Th. Dreyer: Day of Wrath
Lars von Trier: Breaking the Waves; The Idiots; Dogville
Bruno Dumont: Life of Jesus; Humanity
Margarite Duras: Nathalie Granger
Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter; Exotica; Family Viewing; Next of Kin
Rainer W. Fassbinder: Wild Game; Fear Eats the Soul; Chinese Roulette; Stationmaster; Fear of Fear; Year of 13 Moons; Merchant of Four Seasons; Fox and Friends; Effi Briest; Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant; Veronika Voss; just about all of his films
Abel Ferarra: Dangerous Game
Jacques Doillon: The Crying Woman
Jean-luc Godard: Vivre sa vie; The Married Woman; Helas pour moi; and others
Jean Eustache: Mother and Whore
Aki Kaurismäki: The Match Factory Girl; Ariel
Abbas Kiarostami: Ten
Krzysztof Kieslowski: Decalogue
Harmony Korine: Kids; Gummo; Julien Donkey Boy
Victor Kossakovsky: The Belov's
Stanley Kubrick: The Shining (?); Eyes Wide Shut
Neil LaBute: In the Company of Men; Your Friends and Neighbours
Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter
Ang Lee: The Ice Storm
Mike Leigh: Meantime; Naked; Bleak Moments; Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing
Barbara Loden: Wanda
Joseph Losey: The Servant; Accident
Sidney Lumet: The Offence
David Lynch: Blue Velvet; Lost Highway
John McNaughton: Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
Takashi Miike: Visitor Q
Mike Nichols: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Gaspar Noé: I Stand Alone; Irreversible
Maurice Pialat: À nos amours; Loulou; Le Garcu
Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac; Repulsion; The Tenant
Jacques Rivette: Secret Defense
Martin Scorsese: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Taxi Driver; Raging Bull
Todd Solondz: Welcome to the Dollhouse: Happiness: Storytelling
Liv Ullmann: Faithless

I'd like to add "Nil By Mouth", directed by Gary Oldman, and starring Ray Winstone, to the comprehensive list already supplied. Excellent film, but very brutal.

"I have some very distressing news. We've just run out of wine, what are we going to do about it?"

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Achero Manas' 'El Bola' focuses on domestic violence in the home of a young boy who is beaten by his father.

Much of the film's violence is implicit, but there is a scene where we see pellet, the young boy, violently abused by his father, i found this scene shocking and powerful.

'El Bola' is a good film in terms of both style and content, it is a very minimalistic piece of work which conveys the issues of domestic violence through two juxtaposing families- a violent family, and a seemingly perfect family, the relationships of these characters are explored on a deep level, and although the film is fairly slow, it is one of the most powerful i have seen.

If you liked the War Zone then i recommend this film to you.

"Me? I don't talk much...I just cut the hair."

One that I'd like to add, that I don't think has been mentioned yet is "Festen" (The Celebration) by Thomas Vinterberg. It is another of the films in the Dogma style [think Lars von Trier].

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