First Festival Screening – September 28, 2015 @ 3:15 PM at The Centre of Performing Arts
Last Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Centre of Performing Arts
With characteristic subtlety, Isabelle Huppert plays Isabelle Reed, a renowned war photographer whose chosen vocation often leaves her family feeling neglected. When she dies on assignment, her husband Gene (a career-best performance from Gabriel Byrne) is left to pick up the pieces, holding his family together while helping coordinate a posthumous retrospective of her work. Making matters more complicated, Isabelle’s conspicuously close colleague Richard (David Strathairn) warns Gene that he’s writing an in-depth newspaper article on her that will bring some unpleasant truths to the surface. Meanwhile, Gene’s teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid) struggles with the emotional aftermath of their loss amidst the confusion of adolescence. Older sibling Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) returns home, almost too eager to get away from his wife and baby.
Director – Joachim Trier
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