Dennis and I met our goal; we used our entire six pack of Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) tickets that I purchased for his birthday last January. That means we saw six movies over a period of nearly 3 weeks.
The last 3 we saw were
nurse.fighter.boy - Canadian family sort of film about a mother who's a nurse who falls in love with an over the hill fighter and her son. I think it was in french. Kind of a happy ending kind of film even though the mother dies and there's no reason why things should work out. A bit of magic in it.
The Essentials of Life - Again Canadian in french and eskimo language. Engaging story of an eskimo man in the fifties who has tuberculosis. I think these two Canadian movies were both tuberculosis movies. No. No. the first one was a sickle cell anemia movie. Those Canadians. Again heart-warming. In this one, the young boy dies.
Unmistaken Child - an Israeli documentary which really was about Tibetan Buddhism. Astonishing story about how the monks search for and find a young boy who is the incarnation of a recently departed holy man. They examine the clues from the cremation through an astrologer and a monk sets off into the countryside to find the right toddler. And they do. How DID they make this movie, how could they have captured all of the drama with all of these villagers and families? I read a comment from the director that, in the beginning he doubted that they could really identify the right child. But he concluded that they really could. I have to agree.
Photo of the monk who set off on the quest seriously doubting himself yet becomes a surrogate parent and the unmistaken child.
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