Restless

Gus Van Sant

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4.00

Restless

Synopsis

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

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Cast

Mia WasikowskaAnnabel Cotton
Henry HopperEnoch Brae
Ryo KaseHiroshi Takahashi
Schuyler FiskElizabeth Cotton
Jane AdamsMabel Tell
Lusia StrusRachel Cotton
Jesse HendersonAlger Cofax
Kyle Justin LeatherberryElliot
Victor MorrisJoseph
Christopher D. HarderFuneral Director

Recommendations

70
Movieline
The picture is so fluttering and tender, so guileless, that you almost can't believe it was made by an old hand like Van Sant. Then again, maybe you can.
63
Rolling Stone
Wasikowska, from "Alice in Wonderland" to "Jane Eyre," is an actress of translucent expressiveness. And Hopper has his father's brooding intensity and a quicksilver humor all his own. They are both so good, I suggest you dive into the story unfolding in their eyes rather than the banal one in the script.
60
Time Out
Gus Van Sant directs his players just shy of mush; he's a filmmaker capable of brilliant dares (Milk, Paranoid Park) and shocking whiffs (Finding Forrester, the pointless remake of Psycho). This one's kind of in the middle.
60
Boxoffice Magazine
If "Harold and Maude" hadn't already gotten there 40 years ago, this quirky but engaging trifle might seem refreshingly original.
50
Variety
At once delicate and clumsy, tender and twee, Restless wraps the pain of grief and impending mortality in the balm of a teenage love story.
50
Village Voice
Gus Van Sant's latest - a middle-class hetero teen romance, no less - walks the line between mainstream sentimentality and dark art-house humor so effectively that it seems noncommittal.
50
The A.V. Club
Somehow, Van Sant has made a film about life and death in which the stakes never seem higher than whether one insolent kid will stop being such a horrible mope.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Annabel and Enoch learn from each other, even as time ticks away and the end draws near. Weeping is invited, but by no means required.