In Gus Van Sant's Restless (the only screenplay of Jason Lew) Mia Wasikowska is befriended by Henry Hopper and his kamikaze ghost Ryo Kase (thereby invoking a Japanese sub-text). Harris Savides shoots fabulously like every scene takes place on a late Autumn afternoon. Whether Van Sant's alternative silent version works is for another day.
The fact that Savides died on October 9, aged 55, of brain cancer, is a tragically ironic footnote. The beautiful, mournful style of this works better than any eulogy.
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