Part of life. An old woman is dying. Calls from his distant, fifty-year-old past, someone named Harris. The two daughters at her bedside are perplexed.
1. Part of life. An old woman is dying. Calls from his distant, fifty-year-old past, someone named Harris. The two daughters at her bedside are perplexed. However, this mysterious image will change these last days for both mother and daughters. It will change their attitudes and attitude towards the life of those who remain alive. The imminent death of a mother strengthens the love between her and her daughters, her past is the key to understanding what binds them even stronger than blood ties. In this film, death is a full part of life, and not just an inevitability and an outcome.
2. Daughters-mothers. It is both justified and very bold that mothers and daughters play entirely in this film. A miracle of spontaneity Mamie Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep, plays her character in her youth. In the role of the daughter of the main character (this is Vanessa Redgrave) — her eldest daughter Natasha Richardson … The director says that the blood connection of the performers makes the main thoughts of the film more obvious: different stages of our lives are one and only life. And only one form of eternity is available to us — to live in our children.
3. Cunningham from the end of the world. Written by Michael Cunningham. After his first novel, The House at the End of the World, it became clear: this writer knows how to slow down time. His books are simply designed to become cinema — the only art that can capture the passage of time around and inside us.
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Claire Danes, Patrick Wilson, Mamie Gummer