Juniper

[Plays virtually as part of the MSPIFF41 Film Festival running May 5-19; for more information, log on to MSPfilm.org for full schedule.] When a depressed, grieving, rebellious, 17-year-old student (George Ferrier) in New Zealand is expelled from boarding school after the death of his mother and returns home in Matthew J. Saville's captivating, poignant, award-winning, well-acted, realistic, bittersweet, moving, coming-of-age, 94-minute, 2021 film with striking cinematography and landscapes, he learns that his widowed father (Marton Csokas) has hired a home health nurse (Edith Poor) and moved his estranged, crotchety, feisty, gin-guzzling, wheelchair-bound, English grandmother (Charlotte Rampling) into his home, and then they try to find a common ground in their grief and loneliness in their strained, fiery relationship.
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