The unsettling but heartfelt relationship between Sarah and a two year-old she calls Johnny hides a dark secret.The unsettling but heartfelt relationship between Sarah and a two year-old she calls Johnny hides a dark secret.The unsettling but heartfelt relationship between Sarah and a two year-old she calls Johnny hides a dark secret.
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- TriviaThe story was inspired by the loss of Laura Serafini, the director's daughter. She appears in the film through home video footage.
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A very intimate intrusion into a mourning mother's pain
The loss of a child is certainly the worst thing that could ever happen to a parent. This film is a very subtle description of what a mother could do, in despair, to lower that pain. Leaving everything behind, facing her own solitude just to live, once again, even for a few days what is unrepairable. "Johnny's Gone" beautifully describes this. Every landscape is about loneliness, light and photography are as simple and naked as it gets, dialogs, if any, are nearly improvised. Music, omnipresent, yet rare, echoes in emptiness....As if every aspect of the film's construction reminded us of the reality of the story, its probability of existence, disturbingly close to us. The fact that Johnny doesn't seem to miss his parents adds a strange serenity between the two, which could only be imaginative, I guess, and reflecting Sarah's mood. Last moments of unspoilt happiness.
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- genco-sanli
- Oct 24, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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