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Title: A deeply touching and disquieting film
Review: This low budget indie tells the story of a young man's love for a womanstricken with bi-polar disorder.In a small, quiet, character based film like this performances areeverything, and director Barbieri gets two very strong ones from NathanWetherington and Stef Willen.There is something very personal about the way the story is told, andit manages to avoid the two obvious traps - becoming soapy or becomingclinical. Armed with a penetrating eye for framing, and a willingnessto really watch what's happening on the actors' faces between the linesin almost a Bergmanesque way, there is a real intimacy in the film, aswell as a haunting sense of loss. One of the better, more honest andmore effecting films about mental illness and its effects I've seen.
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