But it also aims straight for the heart and doesn't miss. Shrill, violent, and demented, this out-of-control dark comedy will punch you in the guts. The brutality on screen is sugar-coated by an all-over-the-place soundtrack that includes the Counting Crows, Celine Dion, and Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65. It is shot in the 1:1 âportraitâ format, but every now and then a moment of exhilaration will crack open the frame. Mommy is the fifth feature film by French-Canadian donât-call-him-a-hipster director Xavier Dolan and won the Cannes Jury Prize for its originality. But help comes from unexpected places: âDieâ makes friends with Kyla, an anxious teacher living across the street, who then gets sucked into this crazy, volcanic mess. Similarly, his mother Diane, played by Anne Dorval, is a type of Lorelai Gilmore on speed â and to say that sparks fly when they clash is an understatement.

Based on Wajdi Mouawad's 2003 play of the same name, this melodramatic war thriller takes a poetic and poignant look at how families are shaped by atrocities â even long the after wars that produced them have ended.Īptly named âRupert Grint on speedâ by one critic, Antoine-Olivier Pilon plays Steve, an abusive ADHD adolescent who just got out of a juvenile care facility for setting fire to the school cafeteria and injuring a fellow student. Their ordeal is interrupted by a series of flashbacks telling the story of their mother, Nawal Marwan, before leading them to uncover a deeply disturbing secret. The twinsâ quest into a dark and staggering family history makes them experience themselves and the violence of war like they had never imagined. To fulfill their motherâs last wish after her sudden death in Montreal, the two twins Jeanne and Simon must travel separately to an unnamed Middle-Eastern country (with strong resemblances to civil-war-torn Lebanon) to deliver letters to close relatives they never knew they had.

This French-Canadian slow-burner, written and directed by Denis Villeneuve, will pull you in with one of the best movie beginnings of all time â and its outstanding ending will leave you shaken.

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