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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (15)

Produced by David Lynch and directed by Werner Herzog, this mesmerisingly strange tale of American madness is as bizarre as you would expect when two of cinema's most eccentric auteurs join forces.

Brad (Michael Shannon) killed his own mother with a sword after becoming obsessed by a Greek tragedy he was rehearsing. He begins a stand-off with two mystery hostages while a detective (Willem Dafoe) starts to piece together the strange story of how he snapped with the help of his friends and neighbours. Stuffed with unconventional references to Lynch and Herzog's previous work, this is a fascinating, twisted take on one man's painful unravelling.