Friends of mine who saw this at the New York Film Festival said that it's surely one of the best films of the year and that Michelle Williams could be a major contender for Best Actress. I'm looking forward to seeing it when it opens at Film Forum next week.
Old Joy, the director's previous film, is one of the best independent movies I've seen in recent memory.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body