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Critics Consensus: It isn't necessarily an easy watch, but thanks to Netzer's interesting direction and a riveting performance from Gheorghiu, Child's Pose is rewarding.
Critic Consensus: It isn't necessarily an easy watch, but thanks to Netzer's interesting direction and a riveting performance from Gheorghiu, Child's Pose is rewarding.
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A dark piece of neorealism - and a searing indictment of Eastern Europe's newly moneyed classes ...
A Romanian political allegory - in Romanian - might sound like tough sledding, but thanks to a searing performance by Luminita Gheorghiu, "Child's Pose" is anything but.
Perversely engrossing thanks to Gheorghiu's performance as the queen of denial.
Netzer crafts not only a chilling story of family dysfunction, but also an illuminating look into the corruption and decay of the Romanian bourgeoisie - without ever overplaying his hand. It all appears so effortless, when in fact it's so skillful.
A fascinating, troubling and finally controversial portrait of maternal anxiety at its most smotheringly neurotic.
A tour-de-force performance from Gheorghiu carries this 2013 drama along, but Radulescu provides the fine edge, noting how this lioness cloaks her selfish crusade in a plea for humanity.
Filled with strong performances, especially from Gheorghiu, who makes out of Cornelia something more than just a campy overbearing matron.
By the time Child's Pose ended all I could do was say "Man, that was a great movie."
From a beginning that merely sketches the outlines of Cornelia's upper-class existence - she could be a contender for "The Real Housewives of Bucharest" - "Child's Pose" takes on more emotional substance as it develops.
... transmits the nervousness present in the tortuous relationship between mother and child and social tensions. [Full review in Spanish]
Child's Pose is the sort of film that foregrounds a major event rather than a plot per se, in the hope that the exploration of said event will allow character nuance and social significance to waft up from cracks in the façade.
A gripping and thought-provoking drama that touches on the nature of grief and class corruption in the new Romania, the heart of Child's Pose is nevertheless its convincing study of a power struggle between mother and adult child.
Gheorghiu is fabulous as the monstrous, over-controlling bourgeois mother in this sharp amalgam of social critique and family drama that even manages to make us feel pity towards her, conveying a world of complexities in its details, dialogue and characters' behavior.
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