Review: Melancholy 'Aloft' buckles under leaden themes

"Aloft" is not an easy film. Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's meditative, generation-spanning drama about a falconer (Cillian Murphy) on a journey to find his healer and artist mother (Jennifer Connelly) languishes in tragedy. The frozen landscape is sun-soaked but unforgiving and the characters are burdened with the weight of the world and a futile hope for salvation.