A MONSTER CALLS
Theatrical release: January 4, 2017
Duration: 1h48
Director: Patrick Ness
Main actors: Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver
Synopsis: Conor finds it increasingly difficult to cope with his mother's illness, the bullying of his classmates and the firmness of his grandmother. Every night, to escape his daily life, he escapes into an imaginary world populated by extraordinary creatures. But it is there that he will learn courage, the value of sorrow and above all face the truth...
A monster calls is a film that deals with the difficulty for a child to face a unique and traumatic event, the difficulty in putting words to insurmountable pain.
We have experienced this type of situation or will inevitably experience it one day. The more we are seasoned with this experience of life, the more we have “tools” to cope… And it is during childhood and adolescence that we confront for the first time situations like those of Conor O’Malley .
The film is touching for its poetry, for its dramaturgy and other things. A very beautiful parable of life and childhood trauma
