THE TREE (2010) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Julie Bertuccelli
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgan Davies, Marton Csokas,
Christian Byers, Tom Russell, Aden Young
An Australian truck driver dies unexpectedly, leaving behind a devastated widow and four children. One of the kids, an eight-year-old girl, starts to believe her dad's spirit has migrated to a giant tree that overlooks the h0use, and the tree starts to take on a life of its own. A movie about grieving and letting go and moving on, with an undercurrent of something mystical and a touch of horror - the kind of thing the folks down under seem uniquely adept at pulling off. You've never seen tree roots like these.
