The trailer makes this fine Canadian film seem like a three-hanky Existentialist chick flick, which it is to some extent. I'm sorry it doesn't include the scene where a Mennonite preacher calls on Elf(rieda), the suicidal concert pianist sister, in her hospital room. She gets out of bed while reciting Larkin's "Days" and taking off her clothes (patients on suicide watch aren't allowed underwear, we're told in a masterly bit of foreshadowing); the preacher flees.
Fun fact: The one-line Valéry "poem" the sisters recite is actually just a line and a bit from "La Dormeuse," but now it's banging around the internet as a meme all on its own.
Fun fact: The one-line Valéry "poem" the sisters recite is actually just a line and a bit from "La Dormeuse," but now it's banging around the internet as a meme all on its own.