Milwaukee Film is thrilled be be a community co-presenter for I KILLED MY MOTHER at the 2010 Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival.

I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)

Saturday, October 23, 5 pm, UW-Milwaukee Union Theatre
(Xavier Dolan, Canada, in French with English subtitles, 100 min., 2009)

Hubert's mother, Chantale, has Alzheimer's, eats like a pig, and wastes her money on new clothes. Hubert is selfish, lazy, and ungrateful. Xavier Dolan's debut feature—made when he himself was still a teenager, all of 19—swings with the emotions of its characters. Silent tableaus are held until resentment boils into frantic verbal abuse. He is misunderstood; she is abandoned. Through all the words, nothing is communicated. Hubert hides his boyfriend; she sends him to boarding school. The gray of a Montreal suburb chills the back drop for this impressionist and impressively unsentimental portrait of a family who refuses to accept the love each has to offer. An auspicious debut, which garnered the already exceptionally film history-savvy Dolan three prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and introduced this young filmmaker as an emerging talent to watch.

Visit the Milwauee LGBT Film/Video Festival site for more information about tickets.