Grace Is Gone

Putting Off the Pain of Grief by Starting on a Journey

For most of its 85 minutes “Grace Is Gone,” a small, tender film about contemporary parenthood in wartime, carries off a delicate balancing act. How do you portray the tragic effects of the Iraq war on the home front without sounding shrilly partisan or evasively neutral? How do you avoid jingoism, cynicism or mawkishness?
The film, written and directed by James C. Strouse, evokes the daily lives of a father and his two children in perfect, unassuming performances and with a close attention to detail that makes you feel like a fifth member of the family. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4579 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 dicembre 2007