Milla

Where to start with this fantastic film?

Firstly every single performance is flawless. Eliza Scanlen as the lead is magnetic, impossible to take your eyes off. She plays the role so well, showing great vulnerability and warmth balanced with such fire and spirit in her character. It's such a well written part and so well played. Toby Wallace as Moses is equally brilliant, and the on screen chemistry and interactions between the two are so captivating.

In terms of the story it is so compelling. Each character has such different reactions and ways of progressing through the unfolding events of the plot, with everything feeling very real and poignant. There's so much beauty in the story and so much emotion as well, it really will take it out of you after watching this.

To top it all off the film also has such a gorgeous feel to it. It looks beautiful, has such a peaceful and calming score, and has this vein of almost tranquillity running through it.

A beautiful hidden gem of a film.

I started this movie thinking what am I actually watching here and was thinking it was gonna be a waste of time but it ended up surprising me greatly. It is very weird and a little slow to start with but as the story unfolds you start to warm to all the characters and feel their pain.

It's a great Australian movie that deserves more celebration

It's told from all the characters perspective as they deal with this journey of tragedy and loss with git and rawness.

This storyline has been told time and again but not like this. A great story told so differently that it was unexpected and raw and fantastic.

Take any of the characters, they all behave legitimately from their perspective, a result of their personal and social circumstance.

A teenage girl on chemo befriends a rogue, much to her parents dismay and their own dysfunctional relationship. A film about how we interact, with ourselves and with others. Beautifully performed, written and directed.

You could watch it thinking just another teenage drama all doomed with tragedy but wait till the end. It's not till the end the true goal is achieved and true characters are revealed. Truth is, this is story with obvious outcome but what makes it different is the characters and how they reach to reality of situation. The scene cut abruptly and goes back and forth from sad to jumpy to anger to romance and back to being sad. Even the mysterious reveal is so subtle that many of us won't notice. But it's all with good intentions that movie is wrapped up by the waves crashing beach which metaphorically symbolises that you live multiple lives of your parents and your friends and you lose all those lives when you die.

This movie is kind of like going to your favourite holiday spot, you know what your'e going to get when you arrive but the drive is wonderful.

The story of a dysfunctional family as they try and cope with 'life' as it currently presents itself to them.

The film carries this emotional melancholy which the actors use to float through the events they are met with.

Not dramatic for the sake of it, no epic speeches, just the honest (feeling) expressions of emotions.

Its a very worthwhile film.