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| Author(s) : Doris, Dorrie |
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| EAN : 5050968009022 | | Duration : 127 mins | | Produced By : Dogwoof | | Published : 2009 |
Category : DVD: Movies
Category 2 : DVD: Spiritual
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Synopsis:
One of Germany's foremost filmmakers, Buddhist director Doris Dorrie (Enligtenment Guaranteed, How to Cook Your Life) reconfirms her exceptional talent with this tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love and impermanence set partly in Japan.
Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. It is up to her to decide whether to tell him or not. The doctor suggests they do something together, perhaps something they were long planning to do…Trudi decides not to tell her husband about the gravity of his illness and to follow the doctor's advice. She convinces Rudi to visit their children and grandchildren in Berlin. But once they arrive, they realize that their children are so busy with their own lives that they have no time for them. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies.
Rudi is devastated and has no idea what to do next. Then he learns that Trudi's love for him had led her to forego the life that she had wanted to live. He begins to see her with new eyes and vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo, in the midst of the Japanese cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings…
"Inexplicably moving". The Times.
"A quiet, very beautiful film." Philip French, The Observer.
"Remarkable." Eyeforfilm.
Certificate 15 (contains brief nudity). PAL UK/European Region 2.
In German language with English subtitles. Special features: Cast and director interviews.
"I suppose grieving is a process of integration. First off there is this infinite pain, caused by the physical seperation and the knowledge that one will never be able to encounter the other one again physically. But then it also becomes a type of successful, internal integration when one suddenly carries the other one inside one's self. That leads to an internal dialogue that one continues over time, a dialogue that cannot be disrupted...The only thing that is constant is the knowledge that nothing is constant and that nothing remains the way it is. No one wants to accept this, it is human nature not to be able to come to terms with this, and therefore it causes a lot of suffering. We want to capture the moments...which to me, has a lot to do with filmmaking, this transience, the creating of moments, which transpire and are no longer there and the attempt to capture them." Doris Dorrie. |
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