Yoli gets a call from her mother, played by Mare Winningham, that her sister Elf (Gadon), an acclaimed pianist, tried to kill herself, 10 years after their father committed suicide.Īs Yoli rushes to be by her family’s side she has flashbacks to her upbringing in the Mennonite community and the constraints of that experience, including the push back her parents and sister faced when Elf wanted to leave the community to go to university to study music, for example. Yoli (Pill) is trying to stay motivated in her career as a writer, while trying to navigate her divorce from her daughter’s father. "And yet, in our bones, how many of us can actually conceptualize death, understand it?” “In the history of mankind, has there ever been a more obvious truth than the statement, we are all going to die?" the voiceover at the beginning of the movie states. Famed novel by Miriam Toews has been adapted into a movie with the impactful All My Puny Sorrows, starring Alison Pill and Sarah Gadon, in theatres in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal on April 15 after making its debut at last year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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