The Grief of Others

A quiet, patient immersion in a family's unspoken sorrow, tender and observant, asking you to sit with pain that slowly opens toward connection.

Directed by

Patrick Wang

Genres

Drama

Starring

Wendy Moniz, Trevor St. John, Oona Laurence

Overview

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways. But as the family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt, humor, warmth, and burdens of others—to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, family, isolation, healing

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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