“Where is your mom?”
“She’s not in the truth anymore.”
“Do you ever see her?”
“Not since I was six.”
“Really?”
“We’re supposed to imagine that she’s dead.”
While it’s not how You Can Live Forever begins, that interaction between its two leads does a better job than any to set its tone and scope. The new movie from Canadian writer/director duo Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky — already something of a festival darling and social media semi-sensation — takes that emotional theme and runs with it. Or, if not runs, gazes longingly out a window, as the saddest songs on your ’90s playlist echo quietly in
