Sarah Bolger
Lead with strong performances, We Broke Up is a welcome twist on the traditional rom-com challenging audience assumptions.
After being widowed, a man reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and takes along his estranged son, Sean.
Michael Thelin’s directorial feature debut is perhaps most effective in its earliest stages. When we are first introduced to a sleepy suburban neighbourhood, it is already clear that something is amiss. When we witness the kidnapping of a young woman on her way to babysit, we begin to get some idea of what is in store.