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If you have a friend that enjoys complaining about the same thing over and over, for months and years, and you enjoy nodding to whatever nonsense she says, this film is for you.

No spoilers that aren't in the trailer.

It has some good traits: it's not boring and goes by quickly, the main actor is very beautiful and plays well too, the camerawork is very enjoyable.

As some people have pointed out, there are a lot of strange things about the film. To me it looks like it could be taking place in the 80s, it is so quiet and muted, so devoid of technology except for an appearance of a phone/laptop every now and then. A deserted village with barely any people, the main character lives in the woods. The uni is tiny at least in comparison to what I know, of course she is a professor if there are 15 people living in that area. Except for the few main characters no one has a personality, and they are only there to "attack her" by actually doing their job and filling a medical form/interviewing her for the jury service/telling her not to park there/telling her that they can't fire a guy who has already quit. I hated how they treated the doctor, I really did. And I also really disliked how their way of giving a black one some personality was just to have her swear a lot and talk about male organs all the time. As some point the word fork sounded maybe 10 times per minute - it's ridiculous!

Coming back to the beginning of the review: the film is all about complaining. It starts out really pleasantly, but after the initial 40 minutes just spirals into "no one understands me" and "oh poor me". There are enough people like that in the world, why create another one for the film. I honestly have no sympathy for her. She'll live in these woods for the rest of her life and will base her whole personality on how one single evening in her life went.

As a sidenote, I wish the trailer showed more of what the film is actually like. It is more upbeat and positive than the actual film.

The film is very nice, it is made well and the visual part of it is very enjoyable (beautiful school, pretty boys, scenery). The story overall is interesting too, although I found the film waaaay to stretched out. The whinings of the black woman could be reduced considerably, in the end it got tedious hearing about the same thing over and over. The set-up with the five boys could be much shorter. They turned out to be irrelevant, then why show them for so long? The bit with the father was the only plot twist, which is too little for a 2,5 hour long film. Could be made onto a 1,5 hour film without any damage to the plot. We watched the second half on 1,5 speed when it became apparent that the film isn't going anywhere.

So, all in all, a good film, but I wouldn't watch it again.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much, based on the trailer I thought that it was going to be a dull love story. But it turned out to be quite a special story without any love, really, without cliche-d characters. It stayed interesting for the whole duration of the film, it was filmed nicely, it got me involved in the plot. I have very strong opinions about Edith and her family, it was also interesting to see Anton as the victim of the situation and to see how (badly) he handled it. It was very human and very unexpected for a melodrama. I was very satisfied with the ending, because it seemed most plausible and believable. Just all in all a very good film that deserves more than 6,5 rating that it currently has.