Yoli disagrees with the psychiatrist when he releases Elf from the hospital with medications and her promise to do better. The sisters are together for several important scenes. Soon Yoli receives a call from her mother (Mare Winningham) that Elf has tried to kill herself. Her face is a drawn and wooden mask of depression. Yoli’s sister, Elf ( Sarah Gadon), is a highly regarded concert pianist. She’s grieving for her father and is blocked as writer. We meet his daughter Yoli (Alison Pill) who is dealing with a divorce and a teenager (Amybeth McNulty) as she struggles to write a new novel. When the film opens we watch the father of this family (Donal Logue) step directly in front of a train. The title of the film is from a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The characters know and frequently quote long passages by poets and writers. The dialog is lyrical, literary – like reading a literary novel. It was written and directed by Michael McGowan. A Mennonite family struggles through huge losses that they are unable to stop.Īll My Puny Sorrows is based on a novel by Miriam Toews. All My Puny Sorrows is a sad tale of depression and suicide.
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