Initially, I was bored with this movie. The pace was a bit painful but the dilemma Theo had in trying to learn more about his dad kept me hooked. There is much inspiration, encouragement, and humanness in this film. Life is full of situations that bring pain and hurt often forcing us to alter our course in life. This is that story. With tender respect and a little animosity, Theo is able to find the answers he needs while helping someone special in his dad's life before he died.

I would love to see a remake of this movie with a more progressive pace. That was really the only thing that made watching the movie difficult. At the same time it is an awesome movie, a great story, and one that will touch your heart.

I'd have to start by saying that if Sam Fordham were not quite so cute, I may well have given up on this slightly meandering and disjointed tale early on. As it is, he is, so I stuck with it - and I am sort of glad I did. Fordham is "Theo" - a young man whose father committed suicide almost ten years earlier. He has long wanted to establish why he did this, and so embarks on a search to track down the one man who might have some answers - a journey that takes him high into the remote Swiss Alps where he meets "George" (auteur Sebastian Michael) where the two men start to make sense of it all. At times, the monochrome style helps give it some edge, but the characters have no depth, the dialogue vacillates badly in intensity - with some rather weak attempts at humour from time to time - and whilst there is also some sexual ambiguity, it's all just too underplayed. It is frequently interspersed/interrupted by a sort of depressing Celtic minstrel - Pepe Belmonte - and that robs the story of any head of steam the rather dull writing might have given it. It may well have worked better as a short(er) film; but this is strung out with too little in the way of drama to keep it interesting for almost two hours with far too much arty establishing and development photography that, though beautiful at times, becomes wearisome.

Here's a story about a guy who wants to know about his dead father. OK. I see the point but someone please tell me why the incessant guitar guy singing his morose ballads? Did he finance the movie? Is he the producers brother-in-law? What's the purpose other than turning a 35 minute movie into the torture that it became. Also the thrust of the whole thing is when our hero visits a friend of his father who has abandoned society to live like a hermit in the Swiss alps. Here they linger, philosophically dragging on forever and accomplishing virtually nothing. I really disliked this film, it did nothing but annoy me, I finally had to mute and fast forward the guitar guy parts. What a drag.