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Restless
Restless is the story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who tries to cope with his parents' deaths by hanging out with a ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot and attending the funerals of strangers.
10 December 1992, Vancouver, Washington, USA
27 July 1939, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
14 October 1989, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
12 February 1956, Augsburg, Germany
27 November 1969, Singapore
June 23, 2013
This movie pretends it's about death -- our couple meets because Enoch crashes funerals, a literary device that has no relevance here -- but it never scratches past the perfect pale void faces of its leads.
January 06, 2013
Quirky, death-obsessed...oddly touching...faintly amusing
October 06, 2011
Gus Van Sant doesn't make bad movies.
January 30, 2012
The couple's ability to see through how people perceive courageous behavior in the face of death forms the heart of the film. Van Sant illustrates that those trappings usually exist only to make the ones who are not sick feel better about themselves.
October 07, 2015
"Restless" exudes the maturity that eludes Mr. Van Sant's previous fusions of youth and death. It's too bad he still hasn't learned to shower his female leads with the same adoring attention he lavishes on his male ones.
April 06, 2012
A slight tale whose self-conscious indie quirks fail to lift it beyond familiar Disease of the Week formula.
October 18, 2011
All surface, no thought and quite horribly empty.
January 11, 2013
Better stock up on tissues.
October 06, 2011
Van Sant lays on the whimsy with a trowel; Wasikowska's quirky thrift-store wardrobe and twinkling performance are enough to trigger migraines.
October 07, 2011
Restless is consciously lovely in the face of death. How rare.
October 21, 2011
If you haven't seen a wasting disease in real life, you might think "Restless" is romantic. If you have, you might diagnose it as terminally cute.
October 06, 2011
This low-budget movie takes its time filling in the backgrounds of its characters. That works for a while, but when it's over you may wonder if that's all there is.