When Michael's countenance is on full display, it is in a state of transformation between the three characters; just like in Bergman's Persona, it is the exchange between characters that defines them.
Actress Amber Tamblyn's first movie as a director dives headfirst into the hot-button subject of suicide and emerges with expressionistic power with savage grace.
It's as remarkable a depiction of how grief can subsume us and bend reality to its needs as you'll ever see, directed by a talent with a bright future behind the camera.