After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
Rated 3.5 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
Beautifully shot, with some great performances, but nothing particularly stand-out. Story left me just a little unsatisfied, the passage of time was hard to gauge. What I did love was ||the steady descent into madness, it felt like she was genuinely suffering, and tragically tried to sustain her life, but could not.|| What I didn't love was ||the repeating of the wedding song that seemed to echo their lives - the first time I thought was subtle, the second time was on the nose. Also, that it felt like there was this idea of a cool final shot of the forest in flames that the director had in mind for the ending, and so worked towards it. Perhaps it was predefined by the novel it's based on, but I didn't think it was earned, or beautiful enough. Felt like a moment of green screen, which is a shame in an otherwise quite grounded movie.||
I’ve been excited to see this movie literally since I heard it’s in the making and now I finally watched it and: I enjoyed the topic (I didn’t mind the lack of backstory), I loved the details and style, the sensibility and subtlety that I appreciate in other Ramsey’s movies, but to me, the ending just didn’t land, it felt strangely abrupt, so the entire experience emotionally flatlined. I felt like all of this happened in a couple of months, and I didn’t feel the weight of the effort or the weight of the passing time to justify such ending. Maybe a spoiler: I find it interesting how everyone assumed this is about postpartum depression (myself included), but the only reason to believe that is because everyone around Grace assumed the same: it’s motherhood, it’s postpartum, it’s the newborn, it’s hard, it will get better, everyone is assuming it has everything to do with motherhood, without anyone ever asking her what’s actually going on, ignoring the fact that something was clearly off before she even gave birth.
