Movie

My Son

2006 · 79 min

A suffocating, slow-burn study of possessive love that keeps you tense and uneasy throughout.

Tagline: Tragedy strikes a young boy and his over-protective mother.
Overview: Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.
How it feels: Dark, tense, melancholic and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Family, obsession, isolation, coming-of-age
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
obsession
isolation
coming-of-age
power
Places: home
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild