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Such a gentle, evocative film that just drips with creativity and Gaullic ennui. It is difficult to categorize, but fascinating to watch at a bit of an emotional distance. The dynamics of children and grandchildren as they grieve the passing of their mother are rare to behold in such a loving manner. The tensions are there, but not the visceral discharge of repressed pathology that death so often brings, because the family is so healthy at its core. In our transitional era fragmentation of the continuum of life is endemic; for so many, love, when experienced at all, is a fleeting emotion clung to until it becomes brittle. Yet, when we finally come out of suffering, we discover the astounding number of whole people we never saw before who love successfully and grieve loss quickly and completely, with a practical reverence for this gift and thankfulness its experience. This film is just such a revelation.

8/10
2.7.2009 - iispiral@ - age: 50+

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