Mommy

Steve is a teenager and a good guy if it weren't for these spontaneous outbursts of anger and rage from which he suffers. It was this "feature" that closed him in a special boarding school. But his widowed mother, who is also quite a bright personality, decides to take her son and be close to him. Even despite the warnings from the nurses. As you might expect, their relationship sometimes erupted due to Steve's behavior, although Mom still held her own. Quiet and somewhat mysterious Kayla, the couple's neighbor, brings peace and harmony to the not-so-long relationship. It is not necessary to say that the new trio will finally calm down a teenager prone to external violence, but the opposite cannot be said either. Read more Like the previous tapes of director Xavier Dolan, this one was no exception in its pronounced visual style and music. Actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, who played the main character in "Mommy", is not working with Dolan for the first time. Their first joint project was the film "And still Lawrence" (2012), where the actor played the role of a secondary character. A year later, the director presented the video clip College Boy for the song of the band Indochine. "Mother" was included in the competition program of the international film festival in Cannes in 2014. And the film won the Jury Prize. Xavier Dolan was the youngest director to present the work this year, at the time he was 25 years old. By age, he was the second youngest director in the entire history of the film festival. The first place, so to speak, was taken by Samira Makhmalbaf, who again received the Jury Prize at the age of 20. Having become, in the opinion of many cinematographers, one of the 10 best Canadian films of 2014, the drama did not make the Oscar shortlist in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Although an attempt was made and there were many bets on what would happen, it turned out to be a lot. The very topic of the plot about the relationship between father and son in the film was not chosen by chance - it is the personal experiences and analyzes of the cinematographer.