Drama / Romania
Director: Călin Peter Netzer
116 mins
Synopsis
Child’s Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.
A sharply crafted family thriller, Child’s Pose pivots on a riveting performance by Gheorghiu as a steely, upper-class Bucharest architect determined to keep her deadbeat son out of jail. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into a brilliantly ambiguous study of obsessive motherly love.
Won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (2013) and the Telia Film Award, Stockholm International Film Festival
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