Review of Child's Pose

I rather enjoyed this movie, which explores in a realistic way the effects of a possessive and manipulative mother on her son. The unhealthy relationship is the cornerstone on which many (bad) things are built: corruption, lies and so on. Even if it has strong social themes, the movie focuses on the dark side of familiar relationships, when they combine with greed and the desire to "live" through one's own children. These are classical themes, but they are told in a very interesting way, with a nervous movement of the camera that seems to point to the uneasiness of the situation. In my opinion, only two scenes (Cornelia in Barbu's house, the opera scene) are a bit too long: the rest has good rhythm and the end is almost perfect. One brief mention for the Italian translation of the title: "Il caso Kerenes" (The Kerenes case) is really bad. "Child's pose", besides being faithful to the original Romanian title, describes the movie much better.