Helen (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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Ashley Judd as a depressed woman and Goran Visnjic as her husband in “Helen,” directed by Sandra Nettelbeck.
A Portrait of Depression
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: July 29, 2010

Opening with a sobering quotation from Andrew Solomon’s 1998 confession of suicidal depression in The New Yorker, “Helen” dives into this painful mental illness with sensitivity and grace. More