Had heard of the film few years ago and finally got my DVD from Amazon today and watched the film. Loved the film. Highly recommended. Kudos to team and thank you for making the film. It is an originally well written, executed film. I don't want to give away anything about the film because I think that may spoil your viewing, and I'm not a very good reviewer to be honest. If I like the film, I say it. If I don't like the film, I say it. This is one of those rare gems that people would've hardly heard of. This movie pretty much speaks about life, death, existentialism, and the meaning of certain things in our purpose of living. And it being a love story, makes it further interesting.

This is a brave movie. I am not a film critic but a neuroscientist who has focused on the connection between neuroscience and mental disorders for 20 years. Why is this important to state? Because I am afraid survival-enabling human consciousness has slammed head on with the 21th century's inhuman modes of existence, a reality for the vast majority of human beings. This film in its honest and painful manner holds no punches back and delivers its deep message on the ephemeral nature of existence. The looming ecological disaster is just a faint echo of the film's main message. The leading character's lack of a "transcendent" epiphany is NOT a drawback but a realistic acceptance of the pain of self-consciousness. Love of another, love of nature, love of knowledge is what this film is about, those who miss this clear message are already gone….

I agree 100% with Todd Mcarthy's review in the Sundance edition of Variety dated 8-14th February 2010. It's now June and this is still the film of the year for me . This movie is eccentric, gentle , intelligent and gorgeously made . It steps outside the box of what is expected from a modern independent film and harks back to the classic European film tradition . The world needs more films like this . Gaynor Howe's performance was outstanding for me and I particularly enjoyed the fact that such a big subject could be tackled within the constraints of a small independent movie . Full credit to the Sundance judges . It's not a fast burn , but it drew me in from the first minute . Bravo to all concerned .

It's really too bad. This movie starts out great--a really quirky lead, an interesting foil as the (almost) romantic interest, and a really odd plot. And it's fine, right up to the point where it changes from a pretty good romantic comedy into an overly preachy climate change documentary wanna-be. The level of fatalism from that point on is totally excessive, and leads to major problems in consistency (e.g., the attitude of the hermit-like author to his son). And I'm about as far left as one gets on climate change; this preaching with Morse code using atomic detonations for the dots and dashes was really unneeded and fundamentally fatal to what could have been a solid film, and one with a strong eco-message.