An endurance test of awful.

Can we stop with the Harold and Maude homages already. Gus Van Sant, what has become of you? A sappy romance between death-obsessed teens. Is this the kind of phony drivel we can now expect in a post-Twilight world? Henry Hopper (son of Dennis) delivers the most excruciating performance of the year. Just awful.

"A powerful and emotional coming of age story", yeah right. It isn't original because there have been many films about a young person dying and they have probably all been done better, last year's Now Is Good especially springs to mind. I didn't feel the "deep and lasting love" between these two characters and I certainly didn't care about either of them. It wasn't quirky, either, as there is nothing quirky about two death-obsessed teens; it's just a bit weird and hard to follow. Most of all, I wasn't even slightly moved about the inevitability of Mia Wasikowska's character dying. This is usually the type of film I would absolutely love, but not this time.

I think I was too harsh on Restless. For now, I have seen the silent version and it's even worse. I wasn't big on the dialogue before, but somehow, taking it out makes things even worse. If there's one thing I can say about the theatrical cut, it wasn't dull. Or at least this dull. The theatrical cut was many things; pretty to look at, sometimes infuriating, twee as all fuck, a Harold and Maude rip-off. It was not brain-numbingly boring. I couldn't even find myself enjoying Harris Savides' gorgeous photography, which is the reason I watched this version in the first place (pretty pictures without words are still pretty, right?). If you own the Restless Blu-Ray, stick to the original version. It may have been better than I gave it credit for.

I wanna be a ghost and I wanna haunt you Gus.

I quite enjoyed this, I am sure part of that had to do with Mia. I just really like her. Hiroshi was also a nice addition to the story. Even thought you pretty much knew exactly where the story was going I still found it quite touching.

"A powerful and emotional coming of age story", yeah right. It isn't original because there have been many films about a young person dying and they have probably all been done better, last year's Now Is Good especially springs to mind. I didn't feel the "deep and lasting love" between these two characters and I certainly didn't care about either of them. It wasn't quirky, either, as there is nothing quirky about two death-obsessed teens; it's just a bit weird and hard to follow. Most of all, I wasn't even slightly moved about the inevitability of Mia Wasikowska's character dying. This is usually the type of film I would absolutely love, but not this time.

I thought I'd love this but it just didn't feel authentic and I couldn't get into it.

I think I was too harsh on Restless. For now, I have seen the silent version and it's even worse. I wasn't big on the dialogue before, but somehow, taking it out makes things even worse. If there's one thing I can say about the theatrical cut, it wasn't dull. Or at least this dull. The theatrical cut was many things; pretty to look at, sometimes infuriating, twee as all fuck, a Harold and Maude rip-off. It was not brain-numbingly boring. I couldn't even find myself enjoying Harris Savides' gorgeous photography, which is the reason I watched this version in the first place (pretty pictures without words are still pretty, right?). If you own the Restless Blu-Ray, stick to the original version. It may have been better than I gave it credit for.

Restless is a romance about two outcasts, a girl with terminal cancer and a boy obsessed with death.

The characters felt a bit annoying at the beginning, but then they grew on me and at the end I could understand them a better and even feel for them.

The plot has a bit of teen angst, which is normal in these kind of movies. Worth giving a try anyway.

Gus Van Sant es un director que trabaja en lo independiente y lo comercial, yendo de la formula a lo experimental sin problemas. Aun asi, "Restless" es una cinta curiosa en su filmografia que se posiciona en un rango intermedio entre lo cursi y melodramatico y lo sincero y conmovedor.
"Restless" cuenta una historia de amor entre dos personajes lidiando de alguna forma con la muerte. Enoch perdio a sus padres en un accidente y Annabel recientemente fue diagnosticada con cancer. Los actores tienen quimica y comparten momentos genuinos ademas de que Van Sant introduce elementos de realismo magico (Enoch ve a un piloto japones que murio hace mucho y que juega con el "Battleship"). "Restless" es una pelicula de amor que modera el sentimentalismo perfectamente y por ello no se siente manipuladora.

Gus Van Sant hace aqui una peli de amor adolescente en el que los protagonistas (a mi) me caen mal desde el principio, pero su tono lento hace que te llegues a familiarizarte con ellos. Drama romantico que no terminó de entrarme, aunque las historias de gente rarita me encantan y esta tiene algo de eso, el reusltado final no me gusto mucho. Para mi, de las mas flojitas de "Gus". Lo mejor el personaje de Ryo Kase.

De amor y esas weas, pero con cancer, muerte, fantasmas y otras tonteras que cuando se juntan con la onda juvenil resulta en ese intento pretencioso de hacer la película de culto para las generaciones