good back-story, and good acting

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Wonderful acting and directing with an underlying powerful script makes this tale as true as life can be. Making many story and visual parallels, this psychological exploration of couples and family captivates and ring true. Many magnificent scenes questions us, our lives, our choices, our intentions and priorities, our honesty and self-deception, our sexuality, our skewed view. We see couple and marriage failure and frailties. Human desires and dissonance. We understand the process of aging, of longing and hoping, of fearing and fleeing, of fighting and losing.Not an easy film because it asks the though questions and goes deeper were it may hurt, but a necessary and nuanced analysis of our reconstructed, deconstructed and often dysfunctional families. Can we wish happiness to others when we have a hard time with our own? We should, but how...