IMDb plot summary: A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.
Directed by Stephen Moyer. Starring Denis O'Hare, Anna Paquin, and Cynthia Nixon.
The Parting Glass is a small intimate story of a family traveling together to find out about the youngest daughter's death. The crew consists of the daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, her father, and her four siblings, all navigating complicated feelings about her and each other as they mourn. It's tough to write this kind of narrowly contained story, and most of the issues that pop up here are issues with the script. There's an odd sense of time here, the kind of thing you can get away with onstage, when you can pretend someone who has been offstage for a grand total of six lines of dialogue had time to go into the nearby store and buy multiple items, but it feels awkwardly off in a film. And for all the time spent with these characters, we hardly get to know any of them. The younger brother and the ex-husband are the only ones whose relationship with the dead woman is truly explored, making all the other characters feel like filler, characters who don't have a life offscreen. If you're going to limit yourself to six characters, I want to feel like they've all got depth of character, and this falls short there.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Parting Glass < Duel
The Parting Glass > Who's That Knocking At My Door
The Parting Glass > Firecreek
The Parting Glass < Heat
The Parting Glass < Away From Her
The Parting Glass > Fun Size
The Parting Glass < Drive
The Parting Glass > Pacific Rim
The Parting Glass < Red (2018)
The Parting Glass < About Ray
The Parting Glass < The Fourth Kind
The Parting Glass < Blow Out
Final spot: #2180 out of 3602, or 39%.
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