impress while what the title propose and i mean . you can not really expect anything certain with a title like that when you haven not hear about the film or it theme before . the united kingdom have some good cinema and make with all the effort by people that and with movie like this one and get the shot they wait during their whole life . lone scherfig and a danish director and anders thomas jensen and his writing partner and have accomplish an original fable about life while love and relationship and family and and well death . the tagline propose represent the life he want to end and be just about to begin and in reference to wilbur ( jamie sif ) and who and when we first meet him and have just try to kill himself . it get more and more humiliating every time i try to do it and i fail and wilbur tell his old brother harbour ( adrian rawlins ) and a they get out of the hospital . both of their parent die and but wilbur suffer his mother death . he felt it differently and his parent love him and probably more than they love his brother . they be different person . harbour love wilbur and want to take care of him . they have a bookshop and wilbur doesn not care about t and but harbour do . he maintain them both and try to prevent wilbur from achieve his only goal represent end with his life . one of the magical idea the movie have be that it would not let that happen . with a beautifully construct screenplay and the author and creator put a woman in the brother life while alice ( shirley henderson ) . harbour meet her first and and tell his brother about her hair and her smile . wilbur meet her and then and a she save his life when he be try to soon and harbour and alice fall in love and and she move in with them and alongside her daughter . they all seem happy until wilbur try it again and so we can meet very realistic character and a dr. horst ( mads mikkelsen ) and a psychiatrist with a good heart that only try to help and and some woman that like wilbur . but wilbur doesn not see woman and at least not until his brother end up in the hospital and and he meet alice . we understand the flame of love they feel for each other because the film have make the character sympathetic until this moment . it these three people story what turn around and and the performance . i will try to catch jamie sif entire filmography . he be so natural and warm while with that innocent face and look that hide great act quality . adrian rawlins be very quiet but expressive at the same time and in the correct moment . he just there a any normal people and without try to call attention just wait for the moment . the familiar face of shirley henderson be a big surprise . shin in a role between to men and a the only girl you get to have the presence . it go like this . for harbour and it be happiness he never felt and and you can tell because of how he sound when he say i be go home with my wife and daughter . he live for them . for alice be the place she couldn not have while a safe home and company she be miss probably . and for wilbur it be rediscover a life he give for do while it feel again in the wrong circumstance and place and yes and but feel while and the only thing life ask from u be that we thank her for be in the world and because there nothing more beautiful than be alive . well there probably one thing and but that life itself .