I've Loved You So Long (2008) (Blu Ray) - 6/10

I heard good things about this movie and Kristin Scott Thomas' performance so I decided to check it out in all it's subtitled glory on Blu Ray today. While by no means a bad movie, I feel like i'd seen this story done many times before like most recently in Rachel Getting Married. When she returns from prison for killing her son and tries to reintegrate into society, it's was a weird thing to watch because people don't know exactly what happened and instead judge her by what they know. I liked the relationship b/w her and her family who are trying to open up their home to this conflicted soul but I just didn't see any conflict that took hold of the story to keep me interested. By giving us little bits of information about the crime and showing her slow acceptance of grief, we identify with her struggle to be accepted by the people around her and the power that an event like that can have on your will to survive. There are small moments of character development like when they're in the pool talking about men but in the end I just didn't feel like they gave us enough info to have a complete story. I've Loved You So Long was too slow and repetitive to be recommended but I'm sure european audiences will eat it up.