Excellent, a Must See

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film opens with a family being murdered except for young Jane (Peyton Kennedy) in a corner with a pocket knife. The film jumps 25 years later as older Jane (Abbie Cornish) has no memory of the event. She takes photos of farm houses. An accident causes a head injury and apparently she had a previous head injury. Some of her old memories come back while she loses others. Through circumstances Jane and her family end up in her childhood home as creepy things happen. There are butterfly fairies and the monster.The plot was not that tight. The scares were ineffective. There was nothing special about this me-too, I can't believe they went there, film. Jane was cardboard, a poorly scripted character. The film went out of its way to show us the family was killed on 10-10-1985. Then it shows us their headstone: June, 8 1986. They should have used that as the date instead. But as Ed Wood would say, "Who would notice?" Guide: 1 F-word. No sex or nudity.

Deserved a much better lead actress, for example. Abbie Cornish is totally apathetic, disinterested at acting, sometimes delivering out-of- place loud responses that comes from nowhere and most of the time keeping a vacant look that says nothing and feels nothing. The costumes she wear are a horrible hillbilly attempt at "country" fashion; the script deserved better sequences (there is no justification for her to stay at the hospital for so long, for example, for from day one she shows no injuries whatsoever...) and so on.... Not worth viewing.

What a strange little movie we have in the under-the-radar Canadian supernatural drama "Lavender". It may be a low budget indy, but the story, acting and cinematography are all of high caliber.Australian beauty Abbie Cornish is Jane, a woman with a horrific past that she can not remember. Cornish resonates as a wife and mother struggling to recall unthinkable events from a tragic childhood. Although she plays a gal from the American Midwest, her indigenous Aussie accent does seep through on occasion. But that doesn't detract from a solid performance as the anchor of a uniformly fine cast which includes veteran pros Dermot Mulroney and Justin Long.And one other thing. Watching "Lavender" may well result in you never again looking at unexpected presents wrapped in pretty red ribbon as a welcome surprise.

I've seen worse movies. I actually appreciated how artistically appealing this movie was. People are complaining that this movie wasn't interesting enough, but you have to realize that the top grossing movies in the world are fast and the furious and transformer franchises, so i wish there was some context in their reviews. I personally felt that this movie could have been better, but It definitely didn't deserve a 1 star rating.