An older woman is kept separate from he grandson after an accidental incident with mushrooms. Becoming lost and untethered she drifts through life until she hires the son of a friend, just out of prison, to help her.
When you see this film leave your expectations at the door. What ever you think you know what the film is, it isn’t that. I’ve read several pieces on the film and while the details in them are correct none of them can fully explain what it is like to see this absolute gem of a film. In all seriousness this film is just a wonderful tale that is uniquely its own thing.
Actually what this film is is everything that American films are not. This film drifts in and out of story in ways that are never telegraphed or clearly worked out. It moves like life bringing together turns in unexpected ways. People have interesting sides and secrets and none of them are big to do they just are.
Why do I love film festivals so much? Because I get to discover films like WHEN FALL… which broaden my ideas about what cinema and storytelling are. Sure the film echoes a novel in construction but the truth is it does things that no novel could do. This is pure cinema in the most moving and human way.
I loved this film a great deal
Highly recommended
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