Child's Pose

"Sharp, multilayered dialogue and expectedly canny performances are strong enough to overcome the over-active, judgmental lensing."

"The restlessness of the camerawork may drive you to distraction..."

"A complex final scene — in which everyone finally lets the tears flow — only deepens the sense that well-meaning mother love can be as poisonous as it is nourishing."

"Another demonstration of how that country's new wave is developing a distinctive kind of real-time slice-of-life cinema with characterisation in extreme, pitiless closeup."

"Gheorghiu finds the perfect pitch between a mother’s love for her child and a kind of pathology."

"Dissects the moral bankruptcy of well-off Romanian society... it shows a deeply flawed mother-son relationship that claims to be about unconditional love but is about control and fear."

"Another powerfully observed Romanian drama."