Film Review – Goodbye June

Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut with “Goodbye June,” and she keeps the project in the family. The script is written by her son, Joe Anders, who’s also making his first project, electing to keep things intimate and emotionally taxing in the feature, which follows the final days of a matriarch aiming to confront her family’s differences while trying to bid farewell to an existence filled with loved ones struggling with their own problems. “Goodbye June” is most certainly a tearjerker, a ferocious one at times, leaving it up to Winslet to fight the development of melodrama as she seeks to study the sadness of the central situation. Winslet enjoys the services of an outstanding cast, and she does a commendable job keeping stickiness at bay, making a lovely, deeply felt examination of relationships in need of repair during a trying time of acceptance. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com