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trailer here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycw1bxJp5Ws)
this is the most beautiful movie I've seen all year, and I've seen Up. It won the Academy Award for best foreign picture. It's about a celloist who lost his job and finds himself dressing corpses for Japanese funeral ceremonies, and in term dealing with his own past. It begins like a gentle morbid comedy, almost slapstick, but then ends with a ton of intensity and warmth. I've seen it twice and both times I've seen the entire theater weep. The trailer doesn't do the film justice. Go, and you can take anyone to this film, it's unsinkable.
The trailer is crap and the movie has such a disappointing poster:
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However, my theater is running it right now and I have to second everything Pete has said. It is a gorgeous movie and it feels like an insulting comparison, but not only does this excel at everything that Sunshine Cleaning fucked up trying, it's Japanese.
fuck, go see this movie already you guys.
fuck.
Quote from: pete on June 12, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
fuck, go see this movie already you guys.
fuck.
I'm seeing it sunday night. Mod wanna be my date?
Quote from: ©brad on June 12, 2009, 02:23:54 PM
Quote from: pete on June 12, 2009, 11:08:58 AM
fuck, go see this movie already you guys.
fuck.
I'm seeing it sunday night. Mod wanna be my date?
chumps. i'm seeing year one sunday night.
(i wish i was seeing this)
This is now available to stream instantly on Netflix for those who haven't seen it yet.
hmm I reported a sound problem this afternoon and now the movie is offline.
it has indeed departed from my instants. boohoo on that.
It still says streaming coming soon so maybe they're going to fix it after pete narced on them for not being perfect.
dude there was no audio you fuckers, you should be thanking me for not watching the greatest unintentional silent film ever made.
I was joking you aids cunt.
that was a joke too.
God I really hope there's a gas leak in your house right now.
This movie was snubbed even by the Xixax Awards.
Quote from: w a l r u s on February 16, 2010, 12:19:55 PM
This movie was snubbed even by the Xixax Awards.
cos most watched it soundless.
Quote from: Pozer on February 16, 2010, 06:17:38 PM
Quote from: w a l r u s on February 16, 2010, 12:19:55 PM
This movie was snubbed even by the Xixax Awards.
cos most watched it soundless.
the rest were too busy dealing with sudden aids (in some cases accompanied by a sponteneous growth of a cunt), gas leaks, and an unknown number of other hexes made daily by pete.
watch it; it's back up now.
A great companion film for Departures is Nora's Will aka Five Days Without Nora, a Jewish Mexican film which also contemplates the sanctity of life within the ritualism of grief. It too has a tearful and life affirming denouement.
I'm not saying see Nora's Will instead. I'm suggesting you see both.
This was good but I couldn't bring myself to entirely love it. I don't want to say it came off as schmaltzy but perhaps it did at times. But overall it was charming, warm and fairly unique. It made something so beautiful and elegant out of something so sombre/grim. It also made it out to be rather funny too.
I did quite appreciate its sense of humour as well as its ability to be so graceful and dignified.