'restless' (2011) Gus Van Sant.

Maestro Gus Van Sant's disarmingly whimsical, profoundly engrossing, heart-wrenchingly fragile romantic drama 'restless' positively abounds with mirthsome Gallows Humour! Immaculate performances, and a darkly sardonic text that's sharper than a coffin nail, Van Sant's playful, elegiac, bitter sweet adult fairy tale remains a deliciously dreamy, off-beat treat, plus Enoch (Henry Hopper) and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) make no less an adorably skewed, magnetically charismatic screen couple than 'Harold & Maude'. While I was in tatters by the end, I savoured every cathartic tear. The luminous Mia Wasikowska has long been a favourite of mine, but Henry Hopper is a revelation, expressing his art with enviable ease, Hopper sensitively brings a beguiling authenticity to the interior, obsessively funeral-crashing world of the engagingly ethereal, darkling dreamer Enoch. As a gratuitous aside, this review that would have benefited greatly from the mellifluous usage of 'oneiric', maybe another time. Gus Van Sant's wonderfully humane, soulfully contemplative, and soothingly gentle 'restless' could charm the woolly socks off the world's grouchiest Grizzly bear!'