Bessai like a Canadian Todd Field.

This is the first Bessai film I've seen, and I was quite impressed. It's slow moving, and character driven, like Todd Field's "In the Bedroom" or "Little Children".

It's not about making big profound statements, but about exploring emotional truths.

I thought the acting was top notch - not just by the wonderful Ian McKellan (the most underrated actor of his generation, and the reason I rented this), but by Deborah Kara Unger, who strikes just the right note as a hardenned, no nonesense woman, and the child actress, Theo Crane, who was just lovely here.

The DVD has a "making of" feature that is also enjoyable, and made me somehow like the movie even more.

I'm going to have to check out more of Bessai's stuff. I understand this is the third movie in a trilogy?


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