I was privileged to see this film. Centered on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, showing the poignancy of love held at a distance by circumstance, choice and fate, Baines [KD] and his son Christopher [MG] are trapped in a perfect play all taking place in one afternoon; a lifetime taking place in a canned film tragedy. Nonetheless, the other filmic choice, comedy, is also refused. No one ends as a clown, fool, nor failure. The film maker holds us in a limnal [threshold] space between tragedy and ultimate loss and comedy and a happy ending by allowing the healing connection to release one hero [KD] into Death and one [MG] into Life and Love. Although, this is a film about a film maker, the actors live their parts, rather then play them, so as Renee says, bring tissues. This film is a guy weepie that speaks to the painful gulf between fathers and sons, and also, the gulf men create when they cannot find their way in the world and find love at the same time. Yet, Love finds all. See it.
