Helen (Film)
- Ashley Judd: Helen Leonard
- Goran Visnjic: David Leonard
- Lauren Lee Smith: Mathilda
- Alexia Fast: Julie
- Alberta Watson: Dr. Sherman
- Leah Cairns: Susanna
- David Hewlett: Frank
- David Nykl: John
- Chelah Horsdal: Kara
- Ali Liebert: Donna
- Conrad Coates Stephen
Helen is a film directed by Sandra Nettelbeck from 2009 about a severely depressed woman with Ashley Judd in the lead role. The film was shot in Vancouver.
Action
The music is a university professor Helen has just about everything you could wish for: a man who loves her, and a small 13 -year-old daughter. But all this is overshadowed by a severe depression that she pushes to the brink of suicide. The disease is driving the family apart more and more until they eventually completely turns away from her husband and her daughter. The only person who seems at this time to understand more, is one of her students, Mathilda, who himself suffers from depression. Together, they form a kind of purpose -WG, in which both can stand each other.
Reviews
" Helen is a woman portrait, the lives of his leading lady. It works in places almost exclusively through their facial expressions. Ashley Judd is indeed able to lift the heavy themes and explores with her physically intense game the interface between despair and resignation from. But the film remains to distance himself from his protagonist. Although Helen busy with a psychological problem, Sandra Nettelbeck does not provide a look inside the psyche of its protagonist to, but remains in the external view and thus leaves room for reflection. "
Note
Sandra Nettelbeck made the film to make the depression as a disease carefully, as they will often not perceived as such by the public.