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This movie pretends it's about death -- our couple meets because Enoch crashes funerals, a literary device that has no relevance here -- but it never scratches past the perfect pale void faces of its leads.

Better stock up on tissues.

A slight tale whose self-conscious indie quirks fail to lift it beyond familiar Disease of the Week formula.

The couple's ability to see through how people perceive courageous behavior in the face of death forms the heart of the film. Van Sant illustrates that those trappings usually exist only to make the ones who are not sick feel better about themselves.

Had Restless been a silent film it may have been some kind of stylish masterpiece.