Child's Pose
Drama
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.
VIBE
This film feels like a suffocating, intense examination of a twisted mother-son bond. It’s a slow, unsettling descent into denial and control, capturing the suffocating nature of unhealthy familial ties with stark realism.
unsettlingclaustrophobicintensestrainedslow-burnRomanian New Wavenaturalisticcharacter-drivenfamily dynamicscontroldenialcodependency
car accidentmother figureoedipus complexromanian new wave
