Child's Pose

Name: Child's Pose
Genre: Drama
Released: 2013
Duration: 112 min
Cast: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Florin Zamfirescu, Vlad Ivanov

Cãlin Peter Netzer20131h 52mDrama

Why we chose it

A mother whose love stops at no moral boundary sits at the heart of this psychological thriller, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin. It asks how far anyone can go to protect their own child, and she is ready to find out.

Synopsis

To his sixty-year-old mother, her thirty-year-old son is still a child. She can’t accept that he has made a life of his own, bought a car and chosen a girlfriend who doesn’t live up to her expectations. She is wealthy and influential in Romania, so when he causes a fatal car crash, she sets out to use every connection she has to keep him from being punished.