TIFF 2011: RESTLESS Review
by Matt Goldberg Posted 1 year, 281 days ago

Is it a rule that a major film festival has to have a disingenuous, painfully quirky coming-of-age film? This year’s Sundance Film Festival had one with Homework (re-titled to The Art of Getting By when it was released in theaters) and TIFF 2011 has at least one with Gus Van Sant’s Restless. A collection of meaningless quirks and affectations, Restless obnoxiously makes it way to the banal conclusion that we must accept death. It succeeds in that it will make you pray for your own demise if it means you don’t have to keep watching such an awful movie.
