Restless (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 06 Apr 2011
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498569/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Restless
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/restless
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 91 min
• Writer: Jason Lew
• Director: Gus Van Sant
• Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryô Kase
• Keywords: romance, funeral, teen movie, sadness, death of parent,

	6.7/10
	47/100

Restless Storyline

Enoch Brae is a morbid teenager that enjoys attending funerals. He meets the teenager Annabel Cotton in a memorial service and they start to see each other. Enoch has lost his parents in a car accident and lives with his aunt Mabel. His best and only friend is the ghost of the Japanese kamikaze pilot Hiroshi Takahashi and Enoch neither goes to school nor has a car. Annabel is terminal with brain tumor and lives with her sister Elizabeth and her mother Rachel. She loves to read about birds, especially the water birds. Soon the unlikely couple falls in love with each other improving their lives.

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OK, but not great

OK, but not great. Plot is pretty basic but has some good emotional moments. Doesn’t move at a decent pace though, and a lot of the movie feels like padding, however.

Good performances by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper in the lead roles. Good supporting cast.

Small gem, great tribute to Nouvellevague

This underrated film was released just before Christmas in Tokyo. As a long time fun of the director, I enjoyed very much this beautiful film. It appears to be an ordinary boy-meets-girl story with somewhat quirky atmosphere, but inside I found the film is filled with homage to the Nouvellevague cinema.

Among them, I remember the film “Cleo de 5 a 7” by Agnes Varda (1962), which includes discussions of mortality, despair and the meaning of life. I also felt the airs of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. If you love the French films in 60s, I believe you will enjoy and appreciate it more.

The line by Hiroshi (the Ghost) summarizes the theme of this film.

“We have so little time to say any of the things we mean. We have so little time for any of it.”

Beautiful, Romantic and Sad

Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a morbid teenager that enjoys attending funerals. He meets the teenager Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) in a memorial service and they start to see each other. Enoch has lost his parents in a car accident and lives with his aunt Mabel (Jane Adams). His best and only friend is the ghost of the Japanese kamikaze pilot Hiroshi Takahashi (Ryo Kase) and Enoch neither goes to school nor has a car. Annabel is terminal with brain tumor and lives with her sister Elizabeth (Schuyler Fisk) and her mother Rachel (Lusia Strus). She loves to read about birds, especially the water birds. Soon the unlikely couple falls in love with each other improving their lives.

“Restless” is a beautiful, romantic and sad movie about love, life and death. Enoch Brae recalls Harold, from “Harold and Maude”, a teenager with a trauma attracted by memorial services. Mia Wasikowska is wonderful in the role of the sweet Annabel, a teenager terminally ill that loves life. The story is sensitive and their romance is heartbreaking. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): “Inquietos” (“Restless”)