Early Winter

A Canadian-Australian drama film; A story about a man who lives a predictable life with his wife and children, but begins to suspect that his wife of adultery. Heavy and downbeat, this drama about the last days of a marriage is vivid and real. Every effort is made by the director to provide an earnest platform for the marriage to appear doomed - cinematography, the absence of close ups, a humdrum lifestyle that can't help. There is so little joy so it is left to the dialogue to provide a final indication of where all this could possibly go. Even a positive note even seems to be a lie. Its value as a film is in its harsh truths arriving quickly after many false dawns of hope.