big question (cinematheque)

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2012)

This movie asks this fundamental question in an exquisite way: What do we really know about our parents, especially about their love or our birth?
Any child thinks about it and maybe only the nearby death can help to actually ask it. (Personnally, our parents met at a dancing and my twin brother and me have been conceived during Christmas and New year Eve 1973).
Tim's answer is moving and magic, even thought the movie is uneven. It's really good up to the parents wedding because i can't understand what happens after. After having said that Sandra is his soulmate, the father builds her a house and takes the road. Not very passionate, all the more that he spends a lot of time with the always boring Bonham! Up to that, Ewan was a great young adult that discovers a mysterious America.
Tim manages to really bring emotions from the real world and the time stop sequence at the circus or the yellow field are great moment of filmmaking.
We must wait for the ending to find back this emotion with Finney mastering all his craft. For one time, Depp isn't involved (and it's good) but he could have been great playing this introvert son.
In conclusion, Tim should do more movies about normal families because his big sensibility and vision really enhance the emotion and makes everyday life like a fairy tale.