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Restless

2011

Gus Van Sant

Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk ...

6.1

4,054

Romance. Drama The story of a terminally ill teenage girl (Mia Wasikowska) who falls for a boy (Henry Hopper) who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII (Ryo Kase).

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu The Times	"A dire potpourri of adolescent clichés and style-magazine aesthetics, a massive fall-to-earth after the director's Gerry and his 2003 Palme d'Or-winner Elephant"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Restless's main problem is that, although barely a minute of screen time goes by without some adorable quirk revealing itself, it's essentially dramatically inert"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"At once delicate and clumsy, tender and twee, 'Restless' wraps the pain of grief and impending mortality in the balm of a teenage love story"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This agonizingly treacly tale comes off like an indie version of Love Story except with worse music"	NEG

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