Child's Pose

– Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-o..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
2013
Original Name:
Poziţia copilului
Child's Pose (2013) - Also known as Poziţia copilului

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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Child's Pose (2013) - Trailer

Release Date:

08 Mar 2013

Language:

Romanian

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Cãlin Peter Netzer

Writer:

Razvan Radulescu (screenplay), Cãlin Peter Netzer (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia

Plot:

Seeing a way to reassert control over her adult son's life when he faces manslaughter charges, an affluent Romanian woman sets out on a campaign of emotional and social manipulation to keep him out of prison, navigating the waters of power, corruption and influence. Child's Pose is based on the sense of loss of parents who have to send their children away-physically and psychologically. The parent-child relationship is re-assessed through a son in his 30s that wants to escape from his mother, who in turn wants to keep her adult son by her side. The mother's character is quite familiar, but this film is unique in that the director delicately portrays how the controlling mother wants to deny that her son is destined to leave her by following the characters' emotional flows and gazing at their twisted desires. Luminita Gheorghiu turns in an extraordinary performance in playing a mother struggling to "save" her son. Heading to the conclusion, the film shows that the unhealthy mother-son relationship is not that simple when it comes to matters of humane duty.

Awards:

13 wins & 6 nominations.

Gross profit:

$94,853

Production:

Zeitgeist Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
Metacritic:
77%