Friday, September 23, 2016

The streetlights that went out

Nowhere near what I expected. I hardly ever read the synopsis on the DVD cover, so I thought of getting a war movie. Instead I got a slow-moving drama of a widower dad (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons coping with the death of their wife and mother. Slightly disappointed, but rather nicely they had brought the issue on how one single life (and death) of one person has an impact on several people. And the emptiness within.

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