So I didn't watch it this weekend...but I've seen it a few times before. Film school will do that to you.

Here's what I remember.

Beautiful shots. Long shots. Meandering shots. The music being amazing and striking - different from other things I had watched. My heart hurting. The opening car crash scene. The starkness and isolation and loneliness and craving. Beautifully painful scenes of quietness. Rewinding back and watching a scene over and over and noting the camera operation and movement. (Film school will do that to you, too). I remember nothing of the story or the plot. I don't remember about what actually happens. I believe the main woman's child died in the crash? And then she deals with it? I'm sure there is more. Or perhaps not. I remember reading mixed reviews online after watching it. I suppose I was trying to figure something out.

I think what I remember years after seeing a film can provide some value to how successful or unsuccessful a film is. I probably first watched it at 16 (2006) and again in 2008 and 2009 at NYU.