Suzy & The Simple Man

June. 11,2016

Rating：

8.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Adventurer Sustainability Environmental Perspectives

Trailer Synopsis Cast

SUZY & THE SIMPLE MAN is an environmental love story about sustainability and the cycle of life. Eight years in the making, this intimate, funny and uplifting film features Suzy and her adventurer husband Jon Muir who live a simple life off the grid — growing organic fruit and vegetables and caring for their chooks and sheep. But the simple life is never as easy as it seems. When all seems perfect something changes their world and life takes an unexpected turn. With bravery and conviction Suzy and Jon confront perhaps their greatest challenge yet, and consider taking the road less travelled. SUZY & THE SIMPLE MAN is a modest story with big questions at its heart: our relationship to each other, to nature and to other creatures, the care of the planet and ourselves, and confronting our own mortality.

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Reviews

Stometer

2016/06/11

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Ricardo Daly

2016/06/12

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

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Juana

2016/06/13

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Fleur

2016/06/14

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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