The Guitar

The Guitar (2008) is an American indie drama you can watch online on iFILM, the debut feature from director Amy Redford. Saffron Burrows plays a woman who gets a terminal diagnosis, loses her job, and is left by her boyfriend — all in the same day. Two months, the doctors say.

She does not spend them waiting. Instead she rents a loft she cannot really afford, orders everything she has denied herself, and takes up the guitar she never had time for. Isaac de Bankolé and Paz de la Huerta drift into her orbit. Janeane Garofalo appears in a supporting role. The film is less about dying and more about what a person finally lets herself want when the usual reasons to hold back are gone. Stream The Guitar online on iFILM.