Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Sindre Kaspersen German screenwriter and director Sandra Nettelbeck's third feature film which she wrote, is inspired by an article in the New Yorker magazine called "The Anatomy Of Melancholia" from 1998 by American writer Andrew Solomon. It premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival in 2009, was shot on location in Canada and is a Canada-USA-UK-Germany co-production which was produced by producers Christine Haebler and Judy Tossell. It tells the story about a professor named Helen Leonard who's life with her husband David and daughter Julie alters after she has a seizure. Helen is somewhat improved after meeting a doctor and befriending a woman named Mathilda who has been struggling with manic depression for several years, but as her kinship with Mathilda grows she becomes estranged from her family.Finely and engagingly directed by German filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck, this quietly paced fictional tale which is narrated from multiple viewpoints though mostly from the protagonist's point of view, draws a humane and heartrending portrayal of a successful woman who becomes unrecognizable to her family after falling into a severe depression. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions and fine production design by production designer Linda Del Rosario, this dialog-driven and tangible story depicts a mindful study of character and contains a great score by composer Tim Despic.This unsentimental psychological drama about mental illness and how it affects a 40-year-old woman's life, her personality and her family, is set in Canada and is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, compassionate characters and the fine acting performances by American actress Ashley Judd, Canadian actress Lauren Lee Smith, Croatian actor Goran Visnjic and Canadian actress Alexia Fast. An involving, empathic and significant love-story which carefully examines it's central theme and overcomes becoming overly melancholic.

wizard1704-297-747433 I saw this film yesterday evening on TV and I must say it is very beautiful and painful at the same time. You must be in the mood for this kind of film. Acting is excellent by all of the actors, but Ashley is simply brilliant – she could easily be nominated for Oscar. It is not an everyday story and topic is very hard and demanding, but directing and the tempo of the film is perfect, so you can easily follow the story and feel the pain of all the participants in the story. Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith both gave one of there best performances by my standards. I recommend this film to all the real movie fans who can appreciate the story and acting without a bunch of special effects.

megalemeter There are no heroes, no victims, no rescue teams, no spectacular recovery...and that's the beauty of this movie. Some might say that the film is too long or too dark with no switches or no sharp turns of events. This is one of those movies where you can learn from a lot. The most important knowledge coming from it is deconstructing a mith that 'love will concur all'. The other thing is all 'what not to do's' coming from distanced once who should be listened to the most. I have a strong believe that if you watch this movie carefully you will be well prepared if someone you love had to deal with such problem. Ashley Judd gave wonderful performance. Light, camera, action should be credited as the rest of the cast.

SaMoFilmGuy An underdeveloped story in a genre that needs careful crafting to make sure the tale is one of a character afflicted with a disease and not just a treatise on the disease itself. Unfortunately, in this overlong, skimpy story we get no real idea of who Ashley Judd's character is. How does she live when she's holed up in a (Hollywood-style "gritty") warehouse? Where does she get her money from? It's terribly convenient that she has a student with the same disease who, when it's convenient for her to leave, jumps off a rooftop so that Judd can return to her husband. Too many scenes of Judd crying in a fetal position, or just acting dumb (pouring milk on the floor) doesn't make for a good examination of the way a character we really know and understand can fall prey to this malady. Slow, boring and too reliant on electroshock as the answer with no examination of other aspects of the character's background. Also totally unbelievable for anybody familiar with this disease is the idea that her new husband and daughter would have no indication that Judd's character had been depressed before with husband number 1. Moreover she'd have definitely suffered from some indicative episode of depression before succumbing full bore to another attack. Again, the movie is too schematic a dramatic presentation.