But you can tell that this team of seasoned actors relished the opportunity to stretch out with an intelligent well-written script and a supportive director. Perhaps the fact that one of the characters - Lisa's mother - is a stage actress struggling to support her daughter is partially responsible. The feel is more of a stage play, an ensemble piece, than a film.
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All aspiring screenwriters should be forced to watch this movie and then be given a 3-hour oral and written exam before being allowed to put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard). As the father of a daughter, now in her early 20's, I can say that Lisa Cohen's character is as realistic a portrayal of the insecurities and self-righteousness of female adolescence as I have seen.
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Virtually every character is given a credible and compelling voice, from the bus driver to the lawyer, from the mother's suitor to Lisa's "boyfriend".
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Above all, it is a masterclass in how to write dialogue. Thank you, Carol Ballard, for this beautiful gift of compassion and belief.The travails involved in getting this movie released at all are well enough known by now that the fact that it is a flawed masterpiece shouldn't come as a surprise. Something that happens so effortlessly, because the story that comes before has been told so completely and with such skill. The final sequence is a thing of sublime, subtly powerful beauty that is rarely seen in movies these days. The quality of the work is such that much of the dialogue in the movie seems spontaneous and almost ad libbed. Especially in the sense that none of the actors ever seem to be pulling anything out of their "bag of tricks" or doing some bit you've seen them do before. This theme is supported with such unerring consistency in the music (Mark Isham at his most sublime), the cinematography, editing, lighting, art direction and casting. It seeps out of the story through the masterful, chekovian performances of Anna Paquin as Amy and Jeff Daniels as her father. Simply put, the story is about the geese, but it's really about Amy's recovery and reconnection with her future, with her life, though there isn't one line of dialogue explaining that to the viewer. Ballard resists the temptation to explicate the transcendent story of Amy's emotional triumph over her loss and grief.
The great difference between this movie and other movies of its type is that Mr. The discovery of an abandoned nest of Canadian geese eggs is the simple overlaying metaphor that takes us on her journey. Everything is harnessed to tell the story (a basic element of drama surprisingly ignored these days in Hollywood) of a girl who loses her mother at a critical point in her life, and has to find a way to the rest of her life, while reeling from the trauma and uncertain of how to survive her grief.
But, surely, it all comes down to the great story-telling ability of Mr. It's difficult to pin-point which of the masterfully developed elements of filmmaking that make this movie such a joy to watch again and again. That is the over-arching and powerful theme that "Fly Away Home" manages to evoke so beautifully. Especially, when that loss is abrupt and occurs at an age before one has developed the capacities to manage it. The greatest challenge any of us will ever face is how to regain the ability to reach for joy after the loss of a loved one.
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