Review of The Tree (2010) by Lety C — 22 Jan 2011

It's an old rule that movies about the supernatural have to be scary. If they're not, there's a tendency the audience get sleepy or laughs at the wrong sensitive moments.

That's not the biggest problem with The Tree however. It starts with a family father in Australia, dying from a heart attack. His spirit moves into a tree and both his daughter and his widow can talk to him. The tree even gets jealous when the widow, good acting as usual from Charlotte Gainsbourg by the way, meets a new man. It takes a hurricane to give release and to put things right.

This could have been more interesting if it had kept to the conflict between a mother finding a new man and her childrens' dislike. There's no need for spirits in trees and they are no good substitute for real living people.