Films are displayed on a table in the coffee area each Sunday after services. Please feel welcome to browse the collection and borrow a film to watch with friends and family. Here are a couple of new films recently added to the collection.
Departures: This is a Japanese film with English subtitles, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. Departures is surely the gentlest, sweetest movie about death that you will ever see. A cellist named Diago, comes to the rueful conclusion that he’s not talented enough to make a career as a musician; having just returned to his hometown with his wife, he answers a job ad for what he thinks must be a travel agency... only to discover that company prepares bodies to be placed in coffins. Fearful of his wife’s response, he hides his new job--but as he grows to appreciate his boss and the affect that the humbling ceremony of cleaning and dressing the deceased has on their families, Diago discovers that he might have a calling. Though it starts out quietly and even seems slight, it gradually builds in emotional power, layer by layer, until scene after scene at the end is richly moving. Particularly affecting is the performance of Kimiko Yo, the secretary of the company, who harbors a troubling secret. A few moments of overt symbolism push the movie from compassion to sentimentality--but every time Departures seems to have lost its footing, a scene follows that strikes all the right notes so deftly it resonates like a bell. A truly marvelous movie. – (This review is from Amazon Canada).
Children of Heaven: Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1998. CHILDREN OF HEAVEN is winsome, poignant, life-affirming, and moral. This beautiful film tells the story of a brother and sister who live in a poor section of Teheran and have to make do with one pair of shoes between them. In the midst of poverty, this movie affirms life, love, family, perseverance, and compassion.
P.Y.
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