London River

Seen on OCT 8, 2013
   - about an English woman living in the country side going to London in search of her missing daughter, believed to have been killed in a terrorist attack.  This film is largely about how people who hate each other are united when they are in common loss and  grief.  But this theme is done well.  

Poetry

Seen on OCT 7, 2013
 - I think we liked this Korean movie about a grandmother who in her late sixties, working as a care-giver to an old man stricken with paralysis, registering to learn poetry!! To write poetr she was asked to see most familiar things as if she is seeing them for the first time. She sincerely tries but cannot.  Only at end when she is in utter despondency over her failure to save the grandson in her care (even after she compromises with the old paralytic patient), and is she driven to suicide, does she write a poem!!
    

Films seen from Sep 20 to Oc 4

1.  Melinda, Melinda, dir. Woody Allen
2.  Anything Else, dir. Woody Allen
3. Departures-- Japanese film abt a cellist working as undertaker's asst
4. Journey of Hope--Swiss film about the tragic journey of a Turkish laborer thro snowy Alpa
5. Cherry Blossoms--a German film with a love for Japanese Dance form Betou and the Budhist mystique.  Haunting, but unconvincing.  In a sense tragic.