Charlotte Gainsbourg in Julie Bertuccelli's The Tree.
The Tree (L'arbre) is a sweet, family film devoid of the kinds of clichés we are so used to seeing in mainstream sweet, family films. French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (that I live in a world in which Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for The Bind Side in the same year that this woman didn't even get nominated for Antichrist confounds me) is Dawn, a mother of four who must move forward with her life and family after the sudden death of her husband. Daughter Simone (beautifully played by Morgana Davies) is the embodiment of a girly-tomboy dealing with loss, who find comforts in the preternatural notion that her father's spirit has moved on... to the enormous fig tree that dominates the family's front lawn.
The Tree is playing today at the Granville 7 at 3:30 pm.
VIFF has just announced those popular films due to be re-screened. They include:
CITIES ON SPEED - TODAY, 12:20pm, GR1
CITY OF LIFE - TODAY, 7:15pm, GR6
LEAVE THEM LAUGHING - TODAY, 9:30pm, PARK
THE WHITE MEADOWS - Thurs, Oct 14, 6:20pm, GR6
AFTERSHOCK - Thurs, Oct 14, 9:00pm, GR6
PROTECTOR - Thurs, Oct 14, 9:30pm, PARK
TWO INDIANS TALKING - Thurs, Oct 14, 9:30pm, GR2
FATHERS&SONS - Fri, Oct 15, 11:20am, GR2
THE COUNSEL - Fri, Oct 15, 11:20am, GR6
MAMMALIAN - Fri, Oct 15, 4:00pm, PCP
GARBO THE SPY - Fri, Oct 15, 7:00pm, VCT
THE TWO ESCOBARS - Fri, Oct 15, 9:00pm, VCT
