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November 06, 2005
Death & Disease
Been so busy with life and work lately that I've not had to opportunity to catch as many films as I would love too. However, when I flipped through the French Film Fest brochure and saw that Son Frère was a film about death and dying - I had to make my way down to Alliance Francais on a lazy Sunday evening.
And I was glad I did. Finally a movie about the stark reality of death, life and brotherly love. There is a tendency to turn movies with death into sentimental sap or a treatise on morality but Son Frère would have none of it. Instead, it is an extremely real and unpretensious portrayal of dying and death sans the overdramatization but retaining its humane poignancy. I didn't cry or feel extremely devasted at any time during the movie, but I was given a lucid picture of how death might be and how love might provide some reprieve to an otherwise stark ending.
Posted by lainey at November 6, 2005 10:01 PM