The Tree (2010 film)

The Tree is a FrenchAustralian 2010 film coproduced between Australia and France. It was filmed in the small town of Boonah in Queensland, Australia and follows the lives of Dawn Charlotte Gainsbourg and her four children after the unexpected death of her husband Peter Aden Young. The film is an adaptation of the debut novel Our Father Who Art in The Tree by Australian writer and performer Judy Pascoe. The film closed the Cannes Film Festival onMay 2010 following the Awards Ceremony and received a sevenminute standing ovation. As well as this, The Tree premiered at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival. The film is distributed in the US by Zeitgeist Films, opening onJuly 2011 in New York, onJuly in Los Angeles, Boston and Washington, D.C., and throughout the country over the summer.

Everything seems perfect until Peter suffers a heart attack, crashing his car into the trees trunk. Dawn is devastated, left alone with her grief and four children to raise. Until one day, 8yearold Simone, reveals a secret to her mother. Shes convinced her father whispers to her through the leaves of the tree and hes come back to protect them. Dawn takes comfort from Simones imagination, and starts to believe in it herself just like Simone, Dawn also likes to spend time in the tree. It starts to dominate their physical and emotional landscape. But the close bond between mother and Simone forged through a mutual sorrow and shared secret, is threatened by the arrival of George, the plumber, called in to remove the trees troublesome roots. As the relationship between Dawn and George blossoms, the tree continues to grow, with its branches infiltrating the house, its roots destroy the foundations. Dawn decides the tree has to go. George and some other workmen arrive, but Simone climbs in the tree to defend it. Dawn and George try to convince her, but she refuses to come down. George argues to Dawn that the girl is onlyyears old, Dawn should not allow her to stop the necessary removal of the tree. This irritates Dawn, and she cancels the operation, and tells George she does not want to see him again.In a big storm the house is demolished by the tree, and the family leaves the area, planning to start living somewhere else, perhaps in a tent. ........

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