Telling a story can serve several purposes: propaganda, entertainment and make us think about existential issues. Most people are just looking for entertainment, which is not a problem in itself. But you can't expect every movie to have an impactful scene in the first 15 minutes, a fast pace or a big turnaround near the end, to get the viewer's attention. "What We Wanted" is a good example of a good movie that people miss because they just don't want to see "slow movies". This is a beautiful drama film, very well directed, beautiful in its delicacy, in its sensitivity, in its rawness, in its reality, in its sadness, with excellent performances, with special emphasis on the performance of Lavinia Wilson and the little Iva Höpperger.

A childless Austrian couple (a plain Jane and a middle east looking fella) take a vacation and a placed in a holiday home near a in your face noisy family unit. So you think it might take a sinister turn with the irritating neighbours but mostly its a movie about the Austrian couple who want most to have a child but cannot and the strain on the relationship.

Scottish voiceovers were a big put off which for me just didn't at all go well. The movie though has good ratings and to be fair the film had a decent blend of curiosity, relationship struggles, strange behaviour, depression, real world issues and some of scenery is really fresh to see. The film gets off to an unusual and slow start, uncovering an unhappy couples issues not just an unhappy woman's issues. She's wanting sex with a hidden agenda for kids, he's probably unsure because there's probably better fish in the sea. But then a strange moment where a blonde neighbour half nude walks in in front the couple and a child, inappropriate, cringed. The rest of the film gets a bit more tense after this and regardless as to whether it's a bit disjointed. I'd say things could have been better but all in all it isn't bad. It's odd they always have to use a better quality of setting when these issues are all around effecting every day people. It's just because of the beautiful scenery and some of the real life issues that does enough to mean this wasn't a bad one.