Starting the year talking about deaths, betrayals, and new beginnings is a bit out of the obvious, but The Good Grief is strangely romantic and sweet, an escapism film that won’t make you cry with sadness, but move you for hope. Written, directed, and starring Daniel Levy, from Schitt’s Creek, the Netflix film is a proposal to analyze the pain of starting over and mismatched love.

Marc (Daniel Levy) lives an idyllic life with his famous husband, Oliver (Luke Evans), who dies unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. Marc’s life turns upside down in a way he didn’t expect when he discovers Oliver’s secret that calls into question not only the year he’s been dealing with grief, but his entire life before as well.

In a spontaneous and drastic decision, to face the past and define his future, he goes to Paris with his best friends, Sophie (Ruth Negga) and Thomas (Himesh Patel), both also in an existential crisis, in what turns out to be a painful trip. of self-knowledge.

If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ll know about the spoiler, but I won’t go into details here. Daniel’s debut film shows his versatility, but anyone who followed the award-winning Shittt’s Creek already anticipated his strength of text and script sensitivity as well. London and Paris have never been so beautiful, an escapism that balances the dark theme of the story. Yes, there are clichés here and there, but it is a beautiful film that invites us to evaluate postponed decisions, the wrong ones, and above all, the right ones. It’s worth checking out.

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