True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche For those who write, watching a film by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke requires preparation: sitting down, meditating for a …
Vinylwriter’s Top 10 Films of the Decade
10. Mommy (2014 / directed by Xavier Dolan)In a fictitious Canada, a new law allows parents to lock their problematic children inside a special center. But Diane “Die” Despres (Anne Dorval), a widowed mother, decides to educate her hyperactive and violent teenage son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) herself. Steve has insanely violent episodes and suffers …