All My Puny Sorrows

6 votes and 3 Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes® Score
63%

Release Date: April 15, 2022 (limited)

1h 43m | Drama

The poignant story of two sisters. Elfrieda (Sarah Gadon) is a gifted, beautiful, happily married and much celebrated concert pianist who struggles with acute depression and a desire to follow in her father's footsteps by committing suicide.

Yolandi (Alison Pill) is a struggling writer who feels like a failure, with children from different fathers. When Elf makes a second attempt on her life and decides she wants to go to a clinic in Switzerland that will help her end her life, Yolandi makes it her mission to save her sister.

Based on the international best-selling novel of the same name by Canadian Miriam Toews.

Canadian Connection : Filmed in North Bay. Most of the cast members, including the two leads, Sarah Gadon and Alison Pill, are Canadian.