MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE

"The mystery isn't who, but why."

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? marks the only collaboration between cinema greats David Lynch and Werner Herzog. An intense observation of the mind and madness behind a brutal crime, it tells the story of Brad McCullum (Michael Shannon), an engaging and committed stage actor who becomes obsessed with the Greek tragedy he is rehearsing. Brad slips into a spiral of mystifying intrigue that will ultimately become his undoing. Ostriches, matricide and unhinged lunacy abound in this cop-procedural oddity as detective Willem Defoe pieces together the story McCullum's decent into madness with help from Chloe Sevigny and the always menacing Udo Kier.

Though producer David Lynch had no direct involvement in the filming, the final work plays like a strange homage to the world of Lynch filtered through the entirely unique perspective of Herzog. A fascinating, frustrating, disturbing and beautiful experience.