I am rather surprised that The Sea of Trees was booed at Cannes mostly because it is a very good movie but also because of the adolescent behaviour of the audience!
The film has everything in it that American cinema goers don't want to see such as suicide, cancer, illness, a high functioning alcoholic, an RTA, and the ugly side of marriage! I suspect the Cannes audience found it too close to home, a painful mirror if you will.
The film is a meditation on relationship, life, death and afterlife. It has a lot of unsettling themes that sooner or later we are all confronted with... Cannes and the general public are obviously just not ready for this. Gus van Sant has not disappointed this viewer. Excellent!
The film has everything in it that American cinema goers don't want to see such as suicide, cancer, illness, a high functioning alcoholic, an RTA, and the ugly side of marriage! I suspect the Cannes audience found it too close to home, a painful mirror if you will.
The film is a meditation on relationship, life, death and afterlife. It has a lot of unsettling themes that sooner or later we are all confronted with... Cannes and the general public are obviously just not ready for this. Gus van Sant has not disappointed this viewer. Excellent!