When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Breathe In has its strengths – gorgeous pebble-hued cinematography, a fine soundtrack and some neatly judged performances.
Delicate in its portrayal of a shifting family dynamic, this is another film to mark Doremus out as a talent to watch.
Like Doremus’s previous feature Like Crazy, this is banal in the extreme.
The plotting is a little too neat but the acting is first rate.
A very controlled, well-executed picture in which the flash of passion never quite arrives.
This is the kind of movie conceived as a tasteful attraction for people who consider themselves superior to the similar but vulgar Richard Dreyfuss vehicle Mr Holland's Opus. Give me Mr Holland any day.
The rich, sympathetic characters we've got to know deserve a less simplistic final act.
The promise of youth meets the onset of middle-age in Drake Doremus's elegantly composed and emotionally reticent drama Breathe In.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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