Dearest Jane

I'm with KiraDK - totally loved this film. Beautifully written and directed, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I chanced upon this gorgeous film late last night on Netflix. Sure, maybe there are minor flaws, but any imperfection fades away in the face of the quiet gutsiness, the gentleness, the rawness, the dreaminess, the awful sadness, the precious happiness...ok, you can see it hit a major artery for me. I want to write to the actors to check they're ok. Bad idea - but it's just so refreshing to see a film where you really care about the characters. It has it's 'words of wisdom' moments - great, insightful words - not didactic or 'greeting cardish', but genuinely wise, moving and deftly worked into the moment. John Lerchen, the young writer and director, must be one hell of a human being and I cannot wait to see more of his work. It may not seem so at the beginning, but this is a big film. It delves deep...and on a hot summer night, in a quiet, Australian seaside suburb, it snuck up on me and touched my heart with a big, fat kapow! For me, that's what great filmmaking is all about.