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I first saw this film at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and immediately loved it. So much, in fact, that I made a note to self to buy it as soon as it was available on DVD. That alone is a ringing endorsement because there are few films I like enough to want to watch more than once, and therefore, own (the only DVD I have bought for myself is Amelie).

Alice Bradley is a seismologist who lives and works in Tokyo when an unexplained tidal anomaly on the St. Lawrence river in her native Baie-Comeau, Quebec, brings her home to investigate. It’s obvious from early on that there are memories and demons there that drove her away in the first place and the end result is a film with delicately interwoven narratives of Alice’s past, her efforts to apply science to a completely unscientific problem, the tragedy of a small town, and her attraction to a local man whose personal history occupies the centre of that tragedy. This is a beautiful film, go rent it. No wait, go buy it.