| By Julie Bertuccelli | |
| With Miranda Colclasure, Suzanne Ramsey, Linda Maracini | |
![]() | A French, Italian and Australian film directed by Julie Bertuccelli starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas. Type : light drama. Length : 01h40min. Dawn and Peter live a happy life in Australia with their four children in the shade of their gigantique fig tree. When Peter dies suddenly, each member of the family finds his own way of dealing with the loss. The 8-year old Simone believes her father to re-incarnated in the tree itself. She shares her secret with her mother, Dawn, who little by little, regains her strength, finds a job perhaps a new love ? While life takes on new forms the tree becomes invasive : its branches, roots, even its frog and bat lodgers assault the nearby house, threatening its foundations. Dawn has no other choice than to cut it down. |