This movie had potential but it seems it was mainly a vehicle for the director to try to exorcise her personal demons. The male lead spends the vast majority of the film mewling and whining ineffectually about what he failed to do as a child while failing (again) to provide any consolation to the victim. Perhaps he was a projection of the director's feeling of helplessness, but it makes for an annoying and unsympathetic character. The saving grace is a good soundtrack made up of obscure but wonderful 60's classics and some great new songs. If the musicians had been anything like the male lead, they would have moped about what they hadn't recorded or written, let down everyone who depended on them, and stood by doing and saying nothing while pretending to help.
Review of Things Behind the Sun
