On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
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Contemporary, spare, grave and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- BornKnighton TMDB · Nov 20236/10
This movie was mostly a tough watch because it is something I lived with - the great and only part that deserves a view and that give to it a 3 stars is the performance of Ashley Judd and actress than than Jean and Marilyn series, didn't shine of so many movies. Her role is just pure anguish to someone that had similar diagnoses to the ones that her character pass on the movie (Major Depression with psychotic symptoms and a light bipolar disturb). Probably her best role in any work she had done, that shows easily the anguish, sometimes semeling without cause and the masks we have to use dya thought day to be in a "normal" life. Also it have and explanation as Judd (and multi-activist) herself had major depression thought her life that isn't something that you can "cure" overnight, you just learn to cope with it. She lived a troubled life thought her youth and entered major rehabilitation in 2006 - and now with the suicide of her mother in 2022 (yes, in many cases it is something that runs through the family). The major flaws probably are by Sandra Nettelbeck, the german writer and director - herself a depression survivor - mostly know by "Mostly Martha" (2001) and somelighter movie
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Cast
- Ashley JuddHelen
- Goran VišnjićDavid
- Lauren Lee SmithMathilda
- Alexia FastJulie
- Alberta WatsonDr. Sherman
- Leah CairnsSusanna
- David HewlettFrank
- David NyklJohn
- Chelah HorsdalKara
- Ali LiebertDonna
Crew
- Sandra NettelbeckDirector
- Sandra NettelbeckWriter
- Michael BertlDirector of Photography
- Tim DespicOriginal Music Composer
- Barry EganEditor
- Jens MeurerProducer
- Christine HaeblerProducer
- Judy TossellProducer
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