IMDb RATING
5.3/10
3.6K
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A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
3.6K
YOUR RATING
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
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Nancy Jane Drake
- Old Womanas Old Woman
- (as Nancy Drake)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths. —Sony Pictures Classics
- Genre
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language and some sexuality
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaThe scene of Jenia and Ivan walking across the frozen lake at night were filmed on an actual frozen lake and at night. Director Claudia Llosa had great difficulty to get the go ahead for the night time shoot on the lake because it was deemed too dangerous.
- Quotes
Ike: [about Ivan] You shouldn't have taken him out of that class. He needs looking after.
Nana Kunning: I took care of it, Ike. He's in another class.
Ike: Yea. He has feelings, Alana. He never comes first.
Nana Kunning: He doesn't need to. It'll do him good to learn that.
Top review
Thought Provoking
I am a serious and intelligent movie watcher of more than 55 years. I look for movies that attempt to say something when selecting an indie. After watching any movie, if it stays on my mind for days or weeks, I count it as a worthwhile film to have watched. Aloft has been on mind for weeks since viewing it.
I suspect that those of us with moderately wretched lives due to personal and family tragedy are prone to be more affected by the effort. You know, those of us who still do not have all of the answers to life even after 60+ years on this rock and years of formal philosophical and literary education.
I recommend that if anything in the trailer, reviews or other sources about the movie appeals to you at all, you should watch the movie with an open mind and make your own decision about its "worth".
Connolly and Laurent (sp?) were compelling.
I suspect that those of us with moderately wretched lives due to personal and family tragedy are prone to be more affected by the effort. You know, those of us who still do not have all of the answers to life even after 60+ years on this rock and years of formal philosophical and literary education.
I recommend that if anything in the trailer, reviews or other sources about the movie appeals to you at all, you should watch the movie with an open mind and make your own decision about its "worth".
Connolly and Laurent (sp?) were compelling.
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- rekjr
- Aug 20, 2016
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $53,086
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,116
- May 24, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $270,971
- Runtime
- 1h 52min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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