Reviews

The perfect movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon with someone you love. The story is both heartwarming and bittersweet, a little like life with the one you love when you've been together longer than not. The music is beautiful, a perfect background, never calling attention to itself, but setting the mood just right. A very quiet movie with the in-between spaces as important, if not more so, than the few moments of action and dialogue.

The best thing about this movie is Andrew Bird's song, Sovay. If I hadn't watched this not-quite-awful movie, I would never have discovered Bird's music. I've spent more time listening to music from his catalog--Cracking Codes, Sisyphus, Capital Crimes--than I did watching this movie. And that's been time well spent!! The next best thing about this movie? The soundtrack as a whole. The songs chosen for the film as well as the score are really, really good. It's sad that not many people will hear BC Smith's score or the songs music supervisor, Linda Cohen, chose. The song playing during the credits, The Lovecats by The Cure (Japanese Whispers, 1983) was a perfect choice. (The title sounds as if it were written in the 60s!) If it weren't for the music, I'd be looking for the 91 minutes I lost.