"Not much to add" (that's how I started - before writing all that follows...!) to the positive statements made in the other user-comments I've read before seeing this remarkable movie tonight.
(just in case: IT IS ABOUT Janey, a young girl in her teens, experiencing new feelings while watching the marriage of her parents finalizing its disintegration during the summer holidays, and her mother allowing herself into adventures Janey both despises and envies...).
It's not often I get drawn into a motion picture like I did into this one. It has got a thoroughly admirable quality of obviousness, thanks to the perfect way everything - the story, the photography, the rythm, the actors - merges to give the film its "harmony", some kind of "flowing completeness" that is, indeed, known to me more by listening to music than from watching a movie.
The dream-like quality has been rightly pointed out, and I might add that the relationship Janey has with her little brother (yes, that small born comedian is sort of a little miracle by himself...) makes me want to have had a sister (which I didn't) I'd have gotten along with just that well...
As I read somewhere, Christine Jeffs has directed several music videos, and that certainly shows, but in the best way possible (not only mastering the means, but having already a VERY personal and original way of using them !).
Small regrets are that I found the score itself (which otherwise contributes to the whole just as well as everything else does) is a bit too invading at some moments, where Jeffs just should have trusted the power of her visual language... AND I share with other IMDb-users that feeling of complete bewilderment, when faced with THIS seemingly USELESS ending/showdown...(what IS this??? WHAT FOR???)which almost, but just almost, trashes the whole experience... although it allows for a brief, and in my opinion breathtaking, reconciliation sequence between mother and daughter.
Very warmly recommended; just forget everything I wrote before and enjoy a work of art of a movie !
AND THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO RECOMMENDED IT !
(just in case: IT IS ABOUT Janey, a young girl in her teens, experiencing new feelings while watching the marriage of her parents finalizing its disintegration during the summer holidays, and her mother allowing herself into adventures Janey both despises and envies...).
It's not often I get drawn into a motion picture like I did into this one. It has got a thoroughly admirable quality of obviousness, thanks to the perfect way everything - the story, the photography, the rythm, the actors - merges to give the film its "harmony", some kind of "flowing completeness" that is, indeed, known to me more by listening to music than from watching a movie.
The dream-like quality has been rightly pointed out, and I might add that the relationship Janey has with her little brother (yes, that small born comedian is sort of a little miracle by himself...) makes me want to have had a sister (which I didn't) I'd have gotten along with just that well...
As I read somewhere, Christine Jeffs has directed several music videos, and that certainly shows, but in the best way possible (not only mastering the means, but having already a VERY personal and original way of using them !).
Small regrets are that I found the score itself (which otherwise contributes to the whole just as well as everything else does) is a bit too invading at some moments, where Jeffs just should have trusted the power of her visual language... AND I share with other IMDb-users that feeling of complete bewilderment, when faced with THIS seemingly USELESS ending/showdown...(what IS this??? WHAT FOR???)which almost, but just almost, trashes the whole experience... although it allows for a brief, and in my opinion breathtaking, reconciliation sequence between mother and daughter.
Very warmly recommended; just forget everything I wrote before and enjoy a work of art of a movie !
AND THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO RECOMMENDED IT !