Nicole Kidman

Aaron Eckhart

Dianne Wiest

Miles Teller

Tammy Blanchard

Sandra Oh

Giancarlo Esposito

Jon Tenney

Stephen Mailer

Mike Doyle

Roberta Wallach

Patricia Kalember

Ali Marsh

Yetta Gottesman

Colin Mitchell

Deidre Goodwin

Julie Lauren

Rob Campbell

Jay Wilkison

Ben Hudson

Salli Saffioti

Ursula Parker

Phoenix List

Sandi Carroll

Teresa Kelsey

Brady Parisella

Sara Jane Blazo

Marylouise Burke

Jennifer Roszell

Derek Blakeney

Ed Kalegi

Jake Levy

Shannon McGann

Chris Werkmeister

Shoshanna Withers

David Lindsay-Abaire

Per Saari

John Cameron Mitchell

Patrick Huber

Edward Drohan IV

Linda De Andrea

David McWhirter

Karen Kane

Shawnna Thibodeau

Amy Duskin

Bryce Burke

Thomas K. Lee

Colleen Callaghan

Cassandra Keating

Joseph Whitmeyer

Tom Tobin

Jared Burke

Angela Levin

Robin Day

Douglas Crosby

Neil Daly

Jon Trosky

Daniel Revers

Stephen Vincent

Brian O'Shea

Ron Bochar

Diana Salzburg

Sig De Miguel

Ann Roth

Kyra Panchenko

Geoff Linville

Caroline Jaczko

Mary Fellows

Linda McDonough

Ola Maslik

Jonathan Schwartz

Jan McLaughlin

Bill Lischak

Gemma O'Neill

Jonathan Huggins

Kalina Ivanov

Rick Canelli

Benjamin Cheah

Marko Costanzo

Leslie Urdang

Dean Vanech

Gigi Pritzker

Joe Klotz

Anton Sanko

Dash Shaw

Frankie DeMarco

Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban

Radium Cheung

Drama

Rabbit Hole

Olympus Pictures

OddLot Entertainment

Blossom Films

United States of America

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A frankly well-made film, but very painful to watch and highly contraindicated for the most sensitive and grieving people.**

I cannot conceive of a pain stronger than that which a father or mother can feel when having to bury a child. No matter the causes of death, it must be as if the World, God or Fate, whatever, took away a part of us that we couldn't live without. I have to confess, honorable reader, that I have never been in a comparable situation. I can only imagine, and I honestly don't want to go through that, nor do I wish that on anyone. I am still young, and the closest person I saw go was a loving grandfather, whose memory is still with me. I suffered with that loss, and that certainty of never seeing him again, but I faced it peacefully, after all, none of us live forever and the elders leave first… it's the nature of things.

This film addresses, precisely, the mourning of a child and the way in which the parents, each in their own way, live this pain and try to find ways to digest it. The world and society almost force us to overcome this after a certain moment, and return to normality. But what normality? There will be “normality” for a parent after something like this? These are questions that deserve reflection and that the film leaves open. We see that couple look at things differently: the father want to keep their son's memory, wants to feel surrounded by his things and touch his objects as if a portion of his son were inside them; the mother prefers to get rid of that objects and even move, in an effort to go forward where anger and frustration are vented on a lot of people around her. To what extent is it pain, not love, that unites them as a couple?

For all this, I need to leave a note of warning, advising this film for people who have lost someone and are going through a grieving, or for people with depression or who are more negative. It's not an easy movie, it's one of those movies that squeezes where it hurts the most. It is based on a play that Nicole Kidman had the good idea of ​​taking to the cinema, and the script is by the same author of the play. Kidman brought the lead role to life with great skill, in a deeply psychological work, full of commitment and awarded with a nomination for an Oscar. Aaron Eckhart brought the heartbroken father to life in a poignant, heartfelt way, in one of the actor's most interesting works. The film also has the frankly positive collaboration of Sandra Oh, Tammy Blanchard, Diane West and Miles Teller.

The production wisely decided not to bet too much on big technical resources, giving the story and the cast's performance all the space needed to shine. Even so, I wanted to leave a note of praise for the cinematography, with a good shooting work, low contrast, a palette of cold or pastel colors and a very well done editing, which gave the film a slower pace that seems to be perfectly adequate. Without flashy visuals and sound, everything is elegant and discrete. The set of the couple's house is perhaps the most relevant, with the large, empty and almost impersonal spaces being, in practice, the mirror of a family that no longer exists, and of an increasingly distant couple.