Yet as time goes on, we really don't know what happens to her. Let's talk about the two senses you had available to you as building blocks for this story. The color scheme was beautiful, all those autumn colors. And it even seemed especially like a Canadian autumn. Obviously that played a part in setting the mood.
Autumn is a big thing in Canada.
It's really clearly a time of transition, going from summer into winter. For me, all these characters are in some kind of transition, and I really thought that the season was an important metaphor and a really nice way of subtly talking about change in people's lives. So we really carried that whole color palate through the entire movie. It's in the wardrobe, it's in the art direction, it's in everything. My art director was so anal about that.