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Naomi Kawase is a\u00a037 year old Japanese filmmaker.\u00a0 This was the first film of hers that I have seen and it’s powerful.\u00a0 It won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year.<\/p>\n
The film approaches the question of mourning with delicacy, but directness.\u00a0 A young woman, newly hired as a caregiver at a nursing home, develops a relationship with a difficult man, Shigeki-san.\u00a0 Their relationships proceeds through many levels, but reaches its climax after her car breaks down while she has him on a day trip.\u00a0 She leaves to get help and he wanders off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She finds him in a watermelon patch and he runs away from her into the forest.\u00a0 He will not turn back and she becomes desparate, responsible for him, but unable to turn him back toward the car.\u00a0 Over a day and a half he leads her on his quest to find his wife’s grave.\u00a0 When he does find it, both have a revelation about their own mourning.\u00a0 He digs a hole and says he is “going to sleep in the earth.”<\/p>\n
She lost her son not long before and has been enclosed in her grief, but her experience with Shigeki-san forces her out of her shell and back into the sensations of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Worth seeing if you can catch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
25\u00a0 bar rises 30.14 0mph N dewpoint 10 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Moon of Winds Naomi Kawase is a\u00a037 year old Japanese filmmaker.\u00a0 This was the first film of hers that I have seen and it’s powerful.\u00a0 It won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year. The film approaches the question of mourning with delicacy, but … Continue reading The Mourning Forest<\/span>