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Our movie for September is a thoughtful, moving film about loss and how rarely we truly know another person – even our own spouse. German writer and director Doris Dorrie took Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 classic “Tokyo Story” as her inspiration for a movie that is set in both Europe and Japan, and which connects the film cultures of both.
Rudi and Trudi have been married many years and live a life of set routines in their quiet Bavarian village. Trudi has privately nurtured an interest in Japanese arts, especially the interpretive dance form called Butoh, but she long ago gave up her dream of visiting Japan and seeing Mt. Fuji.
Then, a diagnosis of fatal illness shatters the routine and launches an effort to re-connect . . . first with their scattered, self-absorbed children and then, in the most unexpected of ways, with each other. This may sound like the set-up for a formulaic weepie, but that’s only because to reveal any more of the utterly unique plot would spoil it.
“Cherry Blossoms” won awards at a number of European film festivals in 2009, but only a handful of people in the U.S. were lucky enough to see it
7 PM Friday September 24 in the DeHaan Center in Pilgrim Park
Exquisitely made, this gentle, intelligent film is full of warm humor. It's a piece of work in which every detail counts, every shot is beautifully framed and lit. . . . Cherry Blossoms invites us to slow down and discover the hidden layers of meaning in our own lives. It requires and solicits a certain generosity of spirit and an openness to experience, but what it offers in return is something remarkable.
Jennie Kermode, Eye For Film UK
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Next Movie night: Friday September 24 "Cherry Blossoms"
