Good Men and Unicorns

Being more than subjective about this film , I admitt, just I love it.

For acting first, Kris Ann Russell and Jake Elbright proposing a splendid to heartbreaking story about loneliness, lost, friendship and answers to a deep crisis.

For storytelling and exploration of a real sensitive theme.

For lovely development of the relation between two main characters.

And, not the last, for the delicate sensation to be a personal story , mixing, in different forms and measure crumbs from your past.

In short, a film easy to love for a special form of tenderness proposed by it, for sweet - bitter humor and for wise definition of family..

The young "Eli" (Jake Ebright) is heading to his grocery-store clerking job when he spots some beautiful white roses growing by a garden gate. He stops to inhale it's scent when the owner "Anne" (Kris Ann Russell) chats with him and gives him one to take away. Initially, he's quite shy with her but after a few days of her rather forcing a friendly conversation, she invites him for some supper and the two begin to realise that they have quite a bit more in common than they might have originally thought. This is quite a poignant piece of cinema that looks at friendship and loneliness without become overly sentimental. There's a pleasant degree of chemistry between these two people and the open-ended nature of their story proves quite engaging as we appreciate that youth and age are perhaps as much states of mind as physiological facts.