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.
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Cast
- Vlad IvanovDinu Laurențiu
- Luminița GheorghiuCornelia Kerenes - Mother
- Bogdan DumitracheBarbu - Son
- Florin ZamfirescuAurelian Făgărașanu
- Mimi Brănescuagent Pricop
- Tania PopaLuminița Angheliu
- Adrian TitieniTraian Angheliu
- Ilinca GoiaCarmen
- Teodor Corban
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is a gripping new drama from Romania and another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup. - 80
Time Out
A complex final scene — in which everyone finally lets the tears flow — only deepens the sense that well-meaning mother love can be as poisonous as it is nourishing. - 80
Village Voice
With Child's Pose, the Romanian tide enters its Cassavetes phase, where the thin ice of haute bourgeoisie life cracks and opens wide. - 75
The Playlist
The last quarter of Child's Pose is so remarkably strong that it makes a sometimes grim journey worth sticking with to its destination. - 70
The Dissolve
Through it all, Gheorghiu finds the perfect pitch between a mother’s love for her child and a kind of pathology. - 67
The A.V. Club
Sporting a blonde dye job and a haughty, impervious manner, Gheorghiu makes Cornelia a consistently compelling figure, at once monstrous and pathetic. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film thrives on ambiguity, keeping all things blurry outside its main character's focused perspective, its myopia sustained by Luminița Gheorghiu's tough, quietly intense performance. - 60
Time Out London
Child’s Pose plays its thematic cards far too early, but it’s sustained by Gheorghiu’s compelling central turn as the endlessly self-deluding grande dame.
