Monthly Archives: September, 2011

"Despite Polley's intimacy with the material, and yet another wrenching performance from Michelle Williams, there are more than one too many missteps in this painfully uneven melodrama. Likely to turn many viewers into leaky faucets by the time the credits stream, its should help certify Polley as Canada's foremost soul crusher."

"...a unique and accomplished work of art that is a fantastic conversation piece on the nature of art, film, documentary, narrative and subjectivity."

"The three fantastic lead actors all bring gravity and some genuinely behavioral moments to the proceedings, but in the end, like an MMA fighter pinned by his opponent to the canvas, they can’t escape the death grip of predictable plotting and wince-inducing expository dialogue."

"Courtney's film doesn't have the life threatening camera work and visual flair of Hell and Back Again, nor does it have an abundance of drama either, but the emotions still run high through the eyes of the young soldiers and their apprehensive families."

"So as a filmmaker, you’re looking for topics and subjects that you think would be a good film, but also a topic that you are engaged in, so you can dedicate two or three years of your life to it."