I Killed My Mother

hikaye sikko olsa da, düsük bütce bir film icin guzel gorsellige ve oyunculuga sahip.

Pros: I liked a scene or two. Cons: Unnecessarily ostentatious direction, shrilly pitched emotional histrionics, really terrible staging, art-school pretension.

brilliant movie.. hard to believe that it's the debut movie of such a young director.. Great storytelling (altough theres not much to tell), fun dialogues, one of the best homosexual love scenes on screen..

nisan 10 (festivalde iki kere izledigim tek film) 29. ist. film fest. atlas sinemasi. bi kere cansu bi kere de anne-baba ile.. & festivalin belki de en iyi filmiydi. diyaloglarin hepsi sonuca gidiyor, tikanma yok. araya konulmus olan, muzikle desteklenmis sahneler hic siritmiyor ve tempoya - filmin dengesine cok uygun olarak yerlestirilmis. yonetmenin 89lu ve ilk filmi olduguna inanmak guc. yonetmen basrol olmanin altindan da basari ile kalkiyor. gercekten buyuk bir basari..

Can't believe it wasn't italian. And very artistic.

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« What would you do if I died today? » « I’d die tomorrow. » Humane, honest illustration of what can be, arguably, the most complex relationship of one’s life. Dolan delivers the high and lows of the relationship between parent and child with a shocking accuracy, without turning either into a farce, which too many movies seem unable to prevent. Volatile, beautiful, gut wrenching, Dorval and Dolan shines spectacularly as a duo, it would blind us, should it not be so tender.

Pretentious and french, but kept my attention.

Directors age doesn't make film better of worse. So what if Dolan was 20 years old when this film was released. I am not familiar how close this film is to real experiences of him growing up, but he comes off a bit like a whinny douche who need a father figure. The kind of artsy movie where people shout at each other a lot. I guess it's not really all the bad, because I am still rating it on the positive side.

I suppose the flaws in this are unfortunate (a handful of completely useless scenes that drag down the simple story of character relations), but I just have to close my eyes and ignore them because of how great the rest of the film is -- most of that rests on the acting of Dolan and Dorval, which is fantastic, and the writing of the two, which paints neither one as particularly likeable. Painfully awkward and somewhat relatable, watch it with your mum.

accualy is Dolan

Dolan deals with the mother-son relationship in an interesting -and, I think, for many oeople- relatable way that I can't remember having seen before. But I feel the film is lacking somewhat -maybe the pretentious (if fun) art-student-film aesthetic kinda takes away its grit, maybe it's the annoying characters. It had me going "oh, I know who these people are" many times but I rarely cared.

Very good acting throughout, but to be honest, the film also felt pretentious and overrated.

The young age and inexperience of a director shouldn't grant his debut film more accolades than the final product deserve. But the promise of something special cant be overlooked, when you find maturity and finesse where these things shouldn't be found yet.

Remarkably assured and impressive for a debut film, let alone one made by a 19 year old. Even this early on Dolan shows a distinct sensibility and style, albeit one that wears it's influences proudly on it's sleeve (i mean, hey, i love Wong Kar-wai too). As might be expected from such a precocious talent, Dolan perhaps goes a little overboard with the stylish embellishments but ultimately never lets them overshadow the film's emotional core.

average drama about the relationship between mother and son. it's clearly straining to be 'artsy', with its not-quite-realism often interrupted by fourth-wall soliloquy, fanciful montage, twinkling piano, serious slow-motion, poetry readings and poignant symbolism. it even has a silly metaphor for a title. the result is fairly jumbled and poorly edited. can definitely see why some are likening it to a film school project.

This here signals the arrival of an impressively young new talent making an impressively assured debut. Dolan captures, both visually and via raw emotions, the tumultuous love-hate mother-son relationship so delicately and with such mature understanding of its deeply contradictory nature.

An impressive debut from an impressively young filmmaker.

Dolan was incapable of ending this movie, but overall it was good.

Female Feminists like Adrienne Rich wrote some inspiring essays about Maternity. About this unique experience men will never be able to understand, and about how this disability is making them to do all the horrible things they have done throughout the course of history. Suddenly, comes a man, a boy, describes maternity, depicts it, articulates it with an amount of emotion the second sex will never have. As Sartre would probably state - Absence has Consequences.

There are scenes that make me shudder, but overall I like his style - it's fresh and honest. In context of Dolan's age and his DIY approach to film making I was pretty blown away.

Has the mentality of high school film class project, including the delightful stupidness.

So Dolan is like a post-modern James Dean being directed by Godard, huh? I'm just kidding, and I know the director is honest about this story -- I guess. This is just a silly, artsy and uneven feature: the pictoric filmmaking achieves some good looking frames -- and bold sequences --, but there is this naive, juvenile sense that every shot should look like, you know, art.

Has the mentality of high school film class project, including the delightful stupidness.

Too artistic and abnoxious: not my cup of tea. About 70% of the dialogue consists of people screaming

the painting scene.

"If the attention Dolan pays to his character's struggle with the paradox of loving his mother without actually liking her feels remarkably honest, his style of shooting feels anything but." - Ed Gonzalez

incrivelmente ruim, MUITO adolescente, com toda a arrogância e pretensão que isso acarreta. só pra terem uma ideia, numa das cenas do filme a mãe chega com uma jaqueta nova e o filho diz que a jaqueta é feia e que ele tinha bom gosto. o filho falou isso usando um macacão, o mesmo que ele usou depois de dar a bunda pro namorado. então assim, kitsch, não kitsch, academicismo escroto puro. que o xavier dolan brilhe no louvre, e deixe o cinema pra quem saca da ambiguidade de verdade.