I really enjoy dork character studies, but this film just left me confused. Lots of scenery, dark, moody lighting, and close-ups, But it all seemed very vague. As if there were no "there" there. There are threads that apparently lead nowhere as if just jumbling together random generic examples of family dysfunction in bite-sized scenes. Mother has a secret stash of money. Son wets the bed once. Daughter buys drugs and has a party. Mother (for some reason everyone thinks is "down-to-Earth") bumps and grinds at a disco. Father brings coffee into the bedroom in the mornings. A door opens all by itself. And, nothing really seems to happen as a complete story --it's just bits and pieces that don't really add up to anything. There's not even an ending, unless you count the other inexplicably digging up the dead horse and then the family having tea. The acting was decent, but without much real story there wasn't much to go on, given that there wasn't much character development beyond the usual cliches. I think most of the good reviews (10/10? Really?) were from people who felt they should like the film because it was artsy. I tend to like many artsy movies, but this was not one of them.

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