Love Liza

After his wife Liza’s suicide, the seemingly cheerful Wilson (Philip Seymour Hoffman) surprises his colleagues with his decision to return to the hotel where he and Liza once spent their honeymoon. Wilson always carries Liza’s suicide note with him. He doesn’t dare to open it and read it. On the return trip, Wilson takes his coping mechanism a step further: by inhaling gasoline fumes from his car’s tank. Clouded by the intoxicating fumes, he begins to exhibit increasingly strange behavior—and brings disaster upon himself... The American actor and Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Capote,” “Magnolia”) was considered one of Hollywood’s finest actors before his death from a drug overdose in 2014. His portrayal of Wilson, a web designer left confused after his wife’s suicide, is the heart of the film: reserved and deeply vulnerable, he plays a man who gradually slips into an emotional void and numbs his pain through a self-destructive addiction to gasoline. “Love Liza” is a quietly haunting film about grief, loneliness, and the attempt to suppress one’s emotions—a touching character portrait in which Kathy Bates (“Misery”) stands up to Wilson as his feisty mother-in-law.