The Tree (2010)

Directed by

Julie Bertuccelli

Genre

drama film, melodrama, Christmas film

Country

Australia, Italy, Germany, France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

6

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 120 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother and her four children struggle to cope after the sudden death of the family's father. The oldest daughter finds comfort in a giant fig tree near their house, which begins to seem linked to her father's presence.

melancholicslow-burnbittersweetintimategentlepoignantwistfulatmosphericemotional

What happens

The Tree is a French-Australian 2010 film co-produced between Australia and France. It was filmed in the small town of Boonah in Queensland, Australia, and follows the lives of Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her four children after the unexpected death of her husband Peter (Aden Young). The film is an adaptation of the 2002 debut novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree by Australian writer and performer Judy Pascoe. The film closed the Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2010 following the Awards Ceremony and received a seven-minute standing ovation. In addition, The Tree premiered at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival. The film is distributed in the US by Zeitgeist Films, opening on 15 July 2011 in New York, on 22 July in Los Angeles, Boston and Washington, D.C., and throughout the country over the summer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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