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Speaking from his home in Bucharest, Netzer is quick to acknowledge the melodramatic nature of the subject matter, explaining how he set out a strategy to counter the emotional heat that can so easily tip this kind of story towards fever pitch.
- Lynden Barber
Oct 31, 2013 · Calin Peter Netzer talks about his award-winning drama, Child’s Pose, which arrives in cinemas November 1. Litro: Can you give a quick description of Child’s Pose in your own words? Calin: Certainly; it’s a psychological drama about a domineering mother and her adult son and the main drive of the film, for me, is the Oedipus complex. It ...
Feb 20, 2014 · The story might have been treated purely as a family melodrama—there’s certainly enough material in the triangle between Cornelia, Barbu, and Carmen, with Cornelia’s husband Aurelian (Florin Zamfirescu) watching wearily from the sidelines.
In Douglas Sirk's 1959 melodrama, "Imitation of Life", Lana Turner plays one type, a selfish white woman who's blissfully indifferent to her child's needs. Yet the more disturbing mother is played by Juanita Moore as a black domestic who smothers her own daughter in so much goodness that it's no surprise that the girl flees.
Mother-love has long been associated with Hollywood 'women’s’ melodrama, of course, a genre that, like realism, is often looked down-upon as dated, but Netzer takes this commonly overheated subject matter by analysing his characters psychologically and refusing to let them boil over the edge of the pan.
- Lynden Barber
Child's Pose locks you into its complex tale of emotional (and familial) blackmail from the very beginning, whilst never feeling the need to descend into out-and-out melodramatic.
Feb 18, 2014 · Winner of a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and Romania's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film for this year's Oscar, Calin Peter Netzer's Child's Pose is a riveting...
