Fiction has plenty of sad endings — we don’t have any trouble accepting death, tragedy, or bleakness, in and of themselves. But in traditional works of fiction, with love stories, it’s very hard to get an audience to accept the detachment of a successful ending. The Swell Season (one of my favorite bands) documentary has the advantage of being able to present narrative directions that are enormously hard to get people to accept if they believe that direction was someone’s creative choice. The movie is being released in selected theaters in Portland, LA and Seattle (West Coast listings). You can read more about the movie here. 

(via NPR)