After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
Morton finds a wealth of nuance in anomie and neurasthenia.
– Richard Nilsen,
Arizona Republic,
19 Jul 2003
fresh:
A mesmerizing conundrum of a suspended life in perpetual motion.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
16 Jul 2003
fresh:
A film about youthful confusion made without a moment of artistic immaturity or indecision.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
5 Jun 2003
fresh:
With little dialogue to assist her -- just the strains of that wonderfully organic music -- [Morton] still manages to suggest the internal struggle, and to slowly reveal a fierce toughness that flies in the face of conventional morality.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
30 May 2003
fresh:
Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while.