MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE

**Ends THURSDAY, MARCH 25th**

The new film from director WERNER HERZOG and producer DAVID LYNCH!

"FIVE STARS (highest rating)! Mesmerizing!" - Keith Uhlich, TIME OUT NEW YORK

"A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses." - V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST

"Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today." - J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE

“Sublime! Totally loopy… a dazzling and utterly distinctive art house movie.” – Time Out (London)

Werner Herzog's second film of 2009, following hot on the heels of his bizarre Nicholas Cage cop thriller BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, is an even stranger descent into the surreal, not surprising given the fact that it was produced by the one-and-only David Lynch.
MY SON, MY SON is based on a harrowing true story. A cop named Hank (Willem Dafoe) is called to a bungalow in a respectable San Diego neighborhood where an intense man named Brad (Michael Shannon) has barricaded himself in his house and taken two hostages. Across the street, Brad’s mother (Lynch-regular Grace Zabriski) lies dead, found sprawled in a pool of blood, the victim of a sword wound. The son is suspected of the murder. As Hank uneasily prowls the sunlit street outside the bungalow, a string of Brad’s friends arrive on the scene, among them his girlfriend (Chloe Sevigny) and a weirdo theatre director (Udo Kier). Slowly the bizarre pieces of the story are assembled in front of the cop, who tries to make sense of it all. Not only has the suspected murderer never been the same since he returned from a kayaking trip to Peru, but he also seems to be suffering from a strange mother complex. To deepen the psychosis even further, Brad, a fledgling actor, has been rehearsing a Sophocles play that, wouldn't you know it, has a whole lot to do with mothers!
An eerie, dreamlike and downright wacky true crime "thriller," MY SON, MY SON is an entirely unique blend of the "Herzogian" and the "Lynchian." Herzog has always been attracted to the obsessive, and in the case of this odd murder, he has found a subject more than suited to his distinctive vision.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.myson-myson.com/

Read an interview with director WERNER HERZOG:
http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-news/2009/12/werner-herzog-interview.php