Review of Are You Here (2015) by Jesse M — 05 Jul 2015

Are You Here seems to try to be different and succeeds story-wise, though as a film it's clunky. It's stunning in its honesty and grasp on reality (and the realities of psychological pain); I was personally invested somewhere near the 25 minute mark and in tears over how much this hit home nearly all the rest of the way through.

My favourite moments are the razor in the bathroom and the electric horse. If I were objective, I'd probably have given only 3 starts to this big story which seems to have had its arms and legs cut off in order to be squeezed into a feature film and because I feel a little hollow without the deeper sense of emotional vindication I was expecting at the end, but instead it was also so beautiful and touching in its hollowness that I had to give it four.