![]() ![]() The writing needs improvement and the cast could use a shaking up by Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank), but overall it is an intriguing and poignant film. ![]() Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find. Director Sheila Pye, who was present for a question-and-answer session after this Toronto International Film Festival showing, said that the film was influenced by people she knew and stories she heard in her younger years. Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Bathed in natural light and atmospheric, The Young Arsonists is set in the 1980s. To deal with the grief and pain in their lives the girls need to let go of parts of themselves that they, or others, are not ready to part with. Their reclaimed farmhouse becomes both a source of renewal and friction. Each is fleeing from various traumas including abuse, alienation, the death of a beloved brother, and more. In rural Ontario a small group of teenage girls band together in an empty farmhouse. Read 824 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. We may need to leave pieces of ourselves behind. My Enemys Cradle by Sara Young My Enemys Cradle book. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando (Florida) 2008, ISBN 0-15-101537-6 HC & Harvest, Paperback, 2008 ISBN 0-15-603433-6. ![]() ![]() What is not clear is what we can take with us and what we must let go. We find ourselves in a situation at a certain point in our lives when our whole world is broken, and we need to move beyond it. ![]()
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