Fest Pt 2 - the revenge
WARNING! ***CONTAINS KOOKINESS*** Gus Van Sant's latest, Restless , shares a major theme with 50/50 whilst taking a very different approach. Far from being some kind of weird mortality obsession on my part (though this film certainly has one), instead my interest was piqued by the presence of Van Sant (because whatever else he's done, Good Will Hunting remains a wonderful film) and of Mia Wasikowsa, with whom I've become slightly obsessed after her astonishing performances in shrink drama In Treatment (season one: Sky Arts; season two: Sky Atlantic, where I can't watch it. Fuckers.) Restless begins with our hero Enoch laying within his own chalk outline; we then follow him on his way to a funeral at which, it becomes quickly apparent, he has no business being. Here he meets Wasikowska's Annabel for the first time, who then saves Enoch's bacon when it he's about to be busted at another funeral he's gatecrashing. We quickly learn that Enoch has a...