rjh wrote on 02/25/2010:

People, this played at the Sydney MG Film Festival in 2009.

I highly recommend this movie, well done, honest and emotive, something we have all see in real life in one form or another.

A story of love, loss and new beginnings.

Watch and enjoy. I did.

Amos Lassen wrote on 12/11/2009:

“Ciao”
How Lives Change
Amos Lassen
Regent Releasing brings us the story of Mark who dies unexpectedly and leaves behind two men—Jeff, his best friend and Andrea, an Italian with whom he has been maintaining an online correspondence. When Jeff tells Andrea that his friend is gone, Andrea writes back expressing his sympathies and shock. The two continue their correspondence and a sense of friendship and rapport grows between them. Eventually they meet and their online emails are extended into more personal conversations. They seem to talk about everything—homes, jobs, lives but mostly they talk about Mark. Their lives come together and what began out of tragedy becomes a deep friendship that may change their lives forever.
The idea for the film came from director Yen Tan’s own experience. It is not a new idea—two people who meet after a long correspondence and seems to be quite a superficial idea for a plot. However, when you add that one of the correspondents dies, a new dimension is added. A sense of intrigue enters the story. What comes about is a film that deals with grief and rebirth—the death of a relationship and the birth of another. We meet two strangers who live in different parts of the world whose connection is based upon the loss of a mutual friend—one man knew the dead men well and foe years; the other man had never met him but still knew him intimately. What are these two men to say to each other when they meet? How will they behave and how do they handle the mourning?
The coming together of these two men is profoundly moving and in a way that must be seen. We learn about picking up the pieces and moving on in a deeply beautiful film. There are really no words to describe this wonderful experience except to urge you to see it.