This prettily shot, sweetly performed film about dying young suffers due to a simplistic script, despite the proven talents of two-time Oscar-nominated director (for MILK and GOOD WILL HUNTING) Gus Van Sant.
Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a handsome young teen heartthrob type with tussled blonde locks and self-consciously hip, vintage outfits (i.e. poseur). While brooding in a double-breasted black suit, outsized collar and pocket watch at a funeral, he's busted by unfazed hipster mourner Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) for crashing the proceedings. She too is a pretty, skinny blonde delighting in duds from decades past, her pixie do reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn or another Mia, in ROSEMARY'S BABY. And so they begin crashing funerals together, which we're meant to find cute but to me felt insensitive and mocking of people's pain; that they're young and foolish and it's their own coping mechanism for personal tragedies is no excuse.
These two eccentric model-types engage in a sweet, first-time romance over the course of the coming autumn, each finding solace in the other's similarly close acquaintanceship with mortality, between his coma following a car accident that killed his parents and Annabel's mere three months left to live due to a brain tumor.
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