Meeting and movie

[Santa Fe JIN]

REMINDER:
General Meeting on Sunday, November 14 at 4pm at Shizuko's house. This
is a potluck meeting.

The movie 'Still Walking' at The Screen is showing at 1:45 on
Saturday.
Some of us are trying to get together for this movie.
Please join us!

OPENING NOV. 13
STILL WALKING
Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan, 2008)
OFFICIAL WEBSITE

WINNER - BEST DIRECTOR - 2008 ASIAN FILM AWARDS

Director Kore-eda Hirokazu writes and directs this family drama that
unfolds over the course of a single summer day as the Yokoyama family
gathers for a rare reunion held to commemorate the death of one who
was taken before his time. It was 15 years ago that eldest Yokoyama
son drowned in a tragic accident, and the changes around the family
home since that fateful day are so subtle that they're not likely to
be noticed! by anyone outside of the immediate family.

Retired family patriarch Kyohei used to run a successful medical
clinic out of the home, though the lights in his medical examining
room haven't even been turned on in years. The tiles in the kitchen
where energetic Toshiko cooks family meals are slowly coming loose,
and as youngest son Ryota arrives home he does his best to hide the
fact that he's currently unemployed. His older sister Chinami has
arrived with her family and does her best to entertain everyone
despite the undeniable cloud of melancholy hanging over the home. As
the festive gathering commences and Toshiko lays out a lavish meal, it
gradually becomes obvious that resentment and sorrow bonds this family
as powerfully as love.


FROM THE DIRECTOR OF "NOBODY KNOWS" AND "AFTER LIFE"

"Quite aside from Shinto transformation parables or Buddhist
reincarnation teachings, the final scene shows how family wisdom is
conserved and recycled. It's a moment that might elicit a smile or a
tear, or perhaps both."
- Mark Jenkins, NPR

"Mr. Kore-eda seems to catch beauty on the fly, as when the three
grandchildren, having gone for a walk, reach for some overhanging
flowers, their fluttering fingers straining upward. There’s joy in
this moment even if these three are also echoes of three other
children: Ryota, Chinami and their lost brother."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times