Not exact matches
They are
painful moments of real life: the miscarriage experienced by a young couple, the struggle another couple had with infertility, the
sometimes crippling nature of depression, the happy couple in their first apartment, the birth of a grandchild, the completion of a doctorate.
Sometimes a bit too much, as we experience every
painful, helpless
moment of witnessing poor John Paul Getty III getting is ear cut off.
But at its best, the film lets its characters twist in the wind, as the awkwardness of these
sometimes funny,
sometimes very
painful moments have full sway.
While Swerdlow's film feels predominantly comedic — aiming to depict the junky's behavior as childish and pathetic — it's only natural that for the actors involved, the experience was
sometimes painful, forcing them to relive
moments from their past that they'd rather not.
In those serene
moments they share complex,
sometimes painful truths.
In a 2009 review, BookPage praised the way each story is «suffused with warmth and empathy, focusing on those singular
moments in life,
painful or ecstatic and
sometimes both, when everything changes.»