Eva is poised to give up her job as a writer/publisher to have a child with her husband, Franklin. After the birth of a baby boy named Kevin, Eva finds it hard to create a bond with her son as he grows up.
An acute and profound dissection of the genesis of a small, seemingly harmless being with an alarming potential for evil. I recommend you prepare before you see it. [Full review in Spanish]
Some movies punish you, but you take it because you're getting something out of the bargain: an insight, a performance, art, adrenaline. Then there are the movies that punish you for the heck of it.
We're not supposed to talk about a lot of the ugly feelings Kevin stirs up, but maybe we need to.
The New Republic
June 19, 2013
It becomes a film about her [Swinton] scattered mind. That produces wonders from Swinton, but it ignores the plea in the title. What about Kevin? Kevin deserves so much more attention-indeed, he deserves being played by Tilda Swinton.
