This 2010 movie didn't get a good score on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. This means that people didn't understand it and did not enjoy it, generally speaking. I've just watched it on Netflix and I rate it 5 out of 5 stars. The film is understated, flowing softly, like the music that accompanies it. It tells a beautiful story, not very realistic, I would say, but potentially real, like much fiction. The film is about life and death and life after death.
The film begins with a French couple at a hotel at a seaside resort who are soon to leave, but not soon enough, for the area is devastated by a tsunami. The woman (actress Cecile de France) is knocked unconscious and is rescued, but apparently she had died and experienced visions of the hereafter before reviving. We watch her life unfold from then on and her outlook is radically changed.
Another main character is a psychic, played by Matt Damon, who is trying to abandon his psychical gifts, but his brother won't let him because there is money to be made. This American psychic heads to England to get away from his brother's plans, where he meets above mentioned tsunami survivor. Before this meeting, the psychic encounters a boy (actor Frankie McLaren) whose twin brother had been killed in an auto accident. The boy needs closure and counseling regarding his sibling's death and our psychic is able to furnish same. This boy then plays a role in bringing the psychic and the girl together.
Thus this film is partly a love story, but in the main, it is propelled by belief in life after death. Humans die and continue on in "weightless" form. That is the solemn message of Eastwood's film and it is a joy to behold.
