An unusual coming-of-age film

The story seems simple but it's very complex because it's involves relationships and feelings. I love the line where Pete, her dad, says she has cold hands and she says this means a warm heart. This line sums up the people and the dramatic countryside.

There are lots of symbols in the film to represent Shell's coming of age; the song she sings in the bath about the woman changing and her roving eye; the deer, who stand for her mostly but her dad too; the way men are relating to her and the women who call at the petrol station. One gives her a book and the other has a small child. Both signs of maturing and womanhood. Then of course there's the relationship she begins with Adam - a symbolic name for her first man.

A random thought: How many people's washing lines have such a fantastic back drop?!?

I give my respect to those who have earned it; to everyone else, I'm civil.