Mediocre film that doesnt say anything new, with loads shouting and screaming.
I found it boring perhaps people in quebec like these sort of movies in general quebec producers try so hard to mimic french cinema its even painful. Why not try to do something unique to your own culture and no try so hard copy somebody elses.
I couldn't agree more.
shareGee, I guess all the awards this film has won were a mistake. As far as being so "French" and non-original, I can't think of many films quite like this one. And I've certainly never seen a film-maker display this many negative personality traits. But then, he was only 19 when he made the film, and it was his first. Maybe he'll come up to your standards some day. Until then, maybe you should stick to watching only mainstream Hollywood fare.
share"Gee, I guess all the awards this film has won were a mistake."
It happens you know.
I strongly disagree. This is a very interesting film: both cinematically and biographically. The fact that the director is so young, and that he displays so much talent is reason enough to admire this film. Also: this is a fairly true to life story for the director and his mother. This kind of relationship is common among teenagers and parents. It needs to be talked about. Dolan not only shows us this painful relationship, but he does it with style and cinematic grace.
He is truly a talent that has a very long film career ahead of him.
I wouldn't say mediocre but slightly above average, its nothing great IMO
6/10When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Agree. For a first effort by a 20 year old i think it is a major achievement. WHile it is not a great movie by any stretch, it had enough ingredients to make it go the distance. SHame some of those were not fully explored.
shareHard to say anything positive about the film when the control-freak director is such an arrogant, pretentious caricature. He could be forgiven for borrowing so heavily from other directors because of his age, but this movie, as well as everything he does nowadays, reeks of self-involvement.
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I love this film.. and I'm so jealous of him ... He's achieved so much... Bravo.. I've watched your film 4 times already
shareTell me, what movies or directors is he borrowing from in this particular movie?
shareI Killed Your Mother was very engaging throughout. The complexities dealt with by the main character with his life and relationship with his Mother was greatly acted and portrayed well with a number of visual images.
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Ah, a personal defeat which should be shuffled artfully within your "review"?
I don't know what I supposed to think when viewing this film. All I know is that I have been young and now I am old. The son represented all those hungerings of youth-too vast to put into words and the mother represented all those same hungerings which have become diminished and unrecognizable through time.
>>The son represented all those hungerings of youth-too vast to put into words
Youth: Self-involved. Thinks one's brilliant. Angst. Wanting to escape a small town. Wanting culture ie urban experience. Sexual confusion. Wanting no labels. Wanting no boundaries. Wanting to feel "free." Feels school is a "prison." Wanting to create "art."
Yea, totally too vast. /sarc
>>the mother represented all those same hungerings which have become diminished and unrecognizable through time.
Now I'm depressed.
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You quoted all the cliches. Yes all those. Though I don't think he was sexually "confused". He knew who he was.
But being that the boy IS the director and in my opinion, gifted, I think he showed great sympathy for the mother all the while he needed to run from her. This was the added component to all the typical struggles with a boy striving to become a MAN. He was leaving this woman to deal with all her unhappiness on her own.
When I said "vast", I meant I was too lazy to list them.
Yes, the mother depressed me as well. She was a woman dealing with depression and didn't know how to help herself out of her own personal "snake pit".
I agree about the movie, but I dont agree about Quebec movies trying to mimic French cinema. Thats just ignorant.
shareWrong, I am from Denmark and absolutely love this film. Heck, I have never even ben to Quebec or anywhere else in Canada.
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you didnt read the review.. it said its a blunt french pastiche, not that you would like it depending on where you live..
shareI totally agree. I noted this sh* 2/10.
shareEven if what you say was true, and the story/dialogue was all a rehash or an attempt to copy French film... Anne Dorval is absolutely fantastic, making the film a must see. I did enjoy the story and exchanges between all of the characters, but she was just so good.
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