OK, but not great. Plot is pretty basic but has some good emotional moments. Doesn't move at a decent pace though, and a lot of the movie feels like padding, however.
Good performances by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper in the lead roles. Good supporting cast.
Restless
2011
Action / Drama / Romance
Restless
2011
Action / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Annabel is a terminally ill cancer patient and is quietly awaiting her death spending her time studying nature. Enoch is struggling to recover from the death of his parents and spends his time attending funerals with his only friend - a ghost named Hiroshi who was a WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot. Just as Annabel's sister is trying to cope with Annabel's impending death, Annabel and Enoch fall in love. They both finally have a reason to live, but is it too late to have a life together?
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Director
Top cast
Mia Wasikowska as Annabel Cotton
Jane Adams as Mabel
Chin Han as Dr. Lee
Lusia Strus as Rachel Cotton
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OK, but not great
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Small gem, great tribute to Nouvellevague
This underrated film was released just before Christmas in Tokyo. As a long time fun of the director, I enjoyed very much this beautiful film. It appears to be an ordinary boy-meets-girl story with somewhat quirky atmosphere, but inside I found the film is filled with homage to the Nouvellevague cinema.
Among them, I remember the film "Cleo de 5 a 7" by Agnes Varda (1962),which includes discussions of mortality, despair and the meaning of life. I also felt the airs of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. If you love the French films in 60s, I believe you will enjoy and appreciate it more.
The line by Hiroshi (the Ghost) summarizes the theme of this film.
"We have so little time to say any of the things we mean. We have so little time for any of it."
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Beautiful, Romantic and Sad
Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a morbid teenager that enjoys attending funerals. He meets the teenager Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) in a memorial service and they start to see each other. Enoch has lost his parents in a car accident and lives with his aunt Mabel (Jane Adams). His best and only friend is the ghost of the Japanese kamikaze pilot Hiroshi Takahashi (Ryo Kase) and Enoch neither goes to school nor has a car. Annabel is terminal with brain tumor and lives with her sister Elizabeth (Schuyler Fisk) and her mother Rachel (Lusia Strus). She loves to read about birds, especially the water birds. Soon the unlikely couple falls in love with each other improving their lives.
"Restless" is a beautiful, romantic and sad movie about love, life and death. Enoch Brae recalls Harold, from "Harold and Maude", a teenager with a trauma attracted by memorial services. Mia Wasikowska is wonderful in the role of the sweet Annabel, a teenager terminally ill that loves life. The story is sensitive and their romance is heartbreaking. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Inquietos" ("Restless")