Even Gus gets the blues. Though he makes an effort to rise above Jason Lew's truly terrible script, there's no escaping just how awful Restless' writing is. It swallows everyone and everything whole.
This twee, joyless film has no characters that remotely resemble human beings. Mia Wasikowska comes the closest to ever fleshing out a character, but she's saddled with so much hideous dialogue there's really no way to come out ahead. Henry Hopper gives the impression he has no training as an actor; he could have easily wandered out of a community theater production.
Danny Glicker's costumes and Harris Savides' lovely cinematography are noteworthy, but Restless is a chapter of Van Sant's filmography I'd rather soon forget. It's very probably his worst work to date.
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