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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Ann is a happily married 23 year old woman and mother of two young girls, she works as a night cleaner in the local university and lives in a trailer at the bottom of her mother's backyard.
After collapsing at home with stomach pains, she's taken to hospital for tests and then told she has ovarian cancer which has spread to her stomach and liver and has at best two months to live. She calmly decides not to tell anyone about the seriousness of her illness, tells family and friends she is suffering from mild anaemia and decides to make a list of things she needs to do before she dies, which include recording birthday messages for her children for every year until they're 18, finding a new wife for her husband, and having sex with another man to see what it's like.
This is a beautifully crafted drama which avoids all the usual Hollywood clichés and portrays Ann as a young woman in a completely honest and natural way. The direction from Isabel Coixet is exceptional; managing to take a sensitive and emotional issue and bring it down to a very human story which has equal measures of sadness and life-affirming humour. Undoubtedly one the best scenes in the film is the moment when Ann is told that she has terminal cancer, which highlights both Coixet's self-assurance as a director and the unwavering confidence she had in her leading actress to shoot the entire scene in close-up, Sarah Polley's reaction as Ann is told of her plight was simply outstanding.
Overall, this is a superb indie drama which is one of those films which hang in your mind days after watching it leaving your with your own questions on Ann's choices and while some of them are morally questionable, as a viewer it's near impossible to pass judgement on her actions; if you were 23 with a young family and had just two months to live wouldn't you have deserved the right to do some things purely for yourself?
After collapsing at home with stomach pains, she's taken to hospital for tests and then told she has ovarian cancer which has spread to her stomach and liver and has at best two months to live. She calmly decides not to tell anyone about the seriousness of her illness, tells family and friends she is suffering from mild anaemia and decides to make a list of things she needs to do before she dies, which include recording birthday messages for her children for every year until they're 18, finding a new wife for her husband, and having sex with another man to see what it's like.
This is a beautifully crafted drama which avoids all the usual Hollywood clichés and portrays Ann as a young woman in a completely honest and natural way. The direction from Isabel Coixet is exceptional; managing to take a sensitive and emotional issue and bring it down to a very human story which has equal measures of sadness and life-affirming humour. Undoubtedly one the best scenes in the film is the moment when Ann is told that she has terminal cancer, which highlights both Coixet's self-assurance as a director and the unwavering confidence she had in her leading actress to shoot the entire scene in close-up, Sarah Polley's reaction as Ann is told of her plight was simply outstanding.
Overall, this is a superb indie drama which is one of those films which hang in your mind days after watching it leaving your with your own questions on Ann's choices and while some of them are morally questionable, as a viewer it's near impossible to pass judgement on her actions; if you were 23 with a young family and had just two months to live wouldn't you have deserved the right to do some things purely for yourself?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This is my favourite movie. First time bought it by accident but then just love it and have been watching it again and again and still love it. Now this movie has became one of my favourite gift.
This is the movie that makes you think. The movie of ordinary people far from all the glamour of Hollywood but delivers a very strong message. I would not tell the detail of the story, but Sarah Polley is brilliant actress, and just watch it!
This is the movie that makes you think. The movie of ordinary people far from all the glamour of Hollywood but delivers a very strong message. I would not tell the detail of the story, but Sarah Polley is brilliant actress, and just watch it!
Simply wonderful, incredibly moving while never blatantly. A masterpiece of the last decade to be put alongside her Secret Life of Words. The director is Isabel Coixet, and I dearly wish that she ha more such sensitive, meaningful films of the complex human spirit coping with the hand dealt.
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