Screening Room: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’

Don’t Call Me Son,the newest film from Anna Muylaert (last year’s incredible The Second Mother), is playing now in limited release. My review is atPopMatters:

The routine for 17-year-old Pierre (Naomi Nero) appear fixed as Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son(Mãe Só Há Uma) begins. Each day, shark-like, he fulfills one urge and then the next, dozing through school, ignoring his mother’s motor-mouthed manias, jamming with an amateur garage band, going out to dance, and hooking up with girls. It’...