Coming home was always a great thing once away for a long period of time. I escaped for 3 years and came home for holidays and film shoots. It was always so wonderfully stress free (not the film shoots) for some reason and my room felt empty (which in some ways I liked). It was odd looking down the high street from the train station after returning, I felt like a tourist not knowing where to go. Then, 6 years ago, I came back and stayed. Didn't have a choice, no money, no job yet but I really had hoped I would be out of there/here by now. Maybe in the new year I'll have the money to leave so I can 'come home' again and have the feeling.
Don't forget to check out where it all started over at
Wandering Through the Shelves.
Tiny Furniture
Anyone who has experienced the independence of University and the hideous feeling of returning home knows how Aura feels. This was Lena Dunham's breakout feature film which starred her real mother and sister, playing those characters too. Aura returns home from Uni with a filmmaking degree and not much of a plan. Having returned home from Uni 6 years ago with the exact same degree to my artist parents, I kinda know how this feels.
Winter Passing
A film where Will Ferrel is neither a comedian nor the centre of attention? Yes it does exist, but its not that great. A sort of good cast but the story about a woman who is offered a lot of money to publish her famous author parents' letters, returns home to confront her father about childhood neglect turns into a 'who is more depressing' contest.
The Dressmaker
Kate Winslett is brilliant as the wrongly accused child murderer, Mrytle Dunnage who returns home after decades to look after her mother is ignored by most of the town in back water Australia. She is now an amazing seamstress, making beautiful dresses for the town even though they are awful to her and her mother. It is unbelievably and unexpectedly sad but the ending is worth the pain.
