This very colourful story manages to break some cliches about bereavement and ominous settings in forests or woods. There is everything: phone texting appearing in italic over images, singing, dancing and references to comics. And most of all, what can stop any kind of creative art, in the story's case, writing and playing music. Grief and loss can affect people taking them to very dark places where their talent, whatever it might be, will disappear, swallowed by a sense to be broken inside.
Two sisters who possibly grew up too close to each other are separated when one of them suddenly dies. The survivor cannot find peace and struggles with deep senses of loss. But the family is unconventional leaning strongly towards the hippie days so the audience is often amused even in the tragedy of the story with the funny, quirky attitude of the family members.
Most important of all, the journey of the surviving sister shows that new beginnings might occur regardless of where people happen to be. And what on the surface might seem a romance or significant other unblocking the drama, in reality is just the lost craft impersonated by somebody who happens to have an interest in the left behind sister.
Some cringing realities which apparently often happen after the death of somebody, like the widower boyfriend who is drawn by the sibling of his passed away girlfriend, are explored very successfully.
The original story of the book manages to analyse so clearly the dynamics of personal relationship in tragedy of loss injecting some sort of rebellion in the main character which feels very authentic.
There is no right or wrong in this film but a clear, powerful message: don't ever forget who you are.
Two sisters who possibly grew up too close to each other are separated when one of them suddenly dies. The survivor cannot find peace and struggles with deep senses of loss. But the family is unconventional leaning strongly towards the hippie days so the audience is often amused even in the tragedy of the story with the funny, quirky attitude of the family members.
Most important of all, the journey of the surviving sister shows that new beginnings might occur regardless of where people happen to be. And what on the surface might seem a romance or significant other unblocking the drama, in reality is just the lost craft impersonated by somebody who happens to have an interest in the left behind sister.
Some cringing realities which apparently often happen after the death of somebody, like the widower boyfriend who is drawn by the sibling of his passed away girlfriend, are explored very successfully.
The original story of the book manages to analyse so clearly the dynamics of personal relationship in tragedy of loss injecting some sort of rebellion in the main character which feels very authentic.
There is no right or wrong in this film but a clear, powerful message: don't ever forget who you are.