I watched this film on the weekend. It was one that I had heard about and was interested in for a while. Not a major block buster, it was a sad story, well told, and one that I suspect is all too real for too many women, but just in the wold of literature, but everywhere else as well.
While the adult and teenage versions Alice look nothing like each other, it does make it easier to understand which parts of the film are flashback's and which are set in the here and now, an issue which can complicate other films and TV shows. Part of me does wonder if Ana Mulvoy-Ten has been type casted into the role of playing a teenager, as if this is the case, there is only a limited amount of time that she can play that for. I have not seen Emily VanCamp for a while, it being when I would watch the occasional episode of Everwood with my wife, a show I found hard to watch as one of the characters reminded me too much of someone I used to work with (and was one of the reasons I left my job back in 2010).
It will be interesting to see if Marya Cohn directs or writes other films in the future and what they are like as I did like this one and would recommend it as a film to watch, if you are willing to see one which has no humour in it and may open healed psychological wounds.
