A pleasant comedy-drama from Down Under, involving a widowed mother and her children in the months after the father's death. Magic realism creeps in when the daughter comes to believe that a huge tree houses her father's spirit. Charlotte Gainsbourg is solid as the mother, and the child actors (especially Morgana Davies as the daughter) are great. The story just doesn't add up to much, and a major reversal on the mother's part doesn't ring true. Well made in all departments, but unnecessary.

"While there's a fine line between the sacred and kitschy, Julie Bertuccelli's film nearly always falls on the latter half of the divide." - Andrew Schenker

the ending made the movie seem way more self-indulgent than it actually was. if that makes any sense. anyway, the ending was really out of tone and crappy.

I expected much much more from the director of 'Since Otar Left'... Even though it has a brilliant idea and some powerful moments, this was mostly lousy filmmaking.

10 ekim 2010, filmekimi10, atlas, 11:00, cansuyla - duzgun islenilmis, sicak duygular birakan bir film.

Nice cinematography and setting, with a great bit of casting (for the tree). Touching, but a bit sentimental and the ending lets it down a little.

I loved the tree they choose. It was majestic and fitted well to the story. Gainsbourg and small Morgana Davies were the body of the film. The environment was interesting and story started nicely, but it did not carry the entire movie. Unfortunately the latter half was already boring and did not give anything new for the story and the end was lame.

One dimensional characters in a painfully predictable plot.