Review - I've Loved You So Long
"When we experience a devastating loss--the death of a beloved, the end of a relationship, a catastrophic life change--the well intentioned sometimes offer the expression, "I know how you must feel." This is rarely true; devastation is a deserted island and escape from that place is excruciating but essential to the soul's survival. Such loss, isolation and return are explored with finesse in I've Loved You So Long, the directorial debut of the French novelist Philippe Claudel."
http://spectrumculture.com/2008/10/i.html