Things We Lost In The Fire (2008)

Part way through Danish director Susanne Bier’s English-language follow-up to the Oscar-nommed After The Wedding, Halle Berry’s Audrey asks, “Do you ever feel like you’re inside a sad movie?” Not really – though we sure know when we’re watching one. Kicking off with a funeral, this downbeat portrait of grief, loss and drug dependency puts you through an emotional meat grinder, with only a slender sliver of feel-good to look forward to after almost two hours of guilt and recrimination.

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