Ten years after becoming the youngest winner of the Camera d’Or, Naomi Kawase returned to Cannes and claimed the Grand Prix, for the “Mourning Forest”, a film focusing on grief as experienced in Buddhism.
The movie is split in two acts. The first takes place in a retirement home, where most of the patients suffer from senile dementia. The two protagonists of the story are a caregiver, Machiko, and Shigeki, a senile old man who frequently acts as a child, sometimes with bad consequences. Soon, the two of them start to connect through their grief, as Machiko is mourning her lost child and Shigeki his dead wife. Eventually, they decide to take a drive in the country, but after an accident, they find themselves in a two-day journey to the forest, and in a number of dangerous situations. The trip, however, provides them both with catharsis.
The movie is split in two acts. The first takes place in a retirement home, where most of the patients suffer from senile dementia. The two protagonists of the story are a caregiver, Machiko, and Shigeki, a senile old man who frequently acts as a child, sometimes with bad consequences. Soon, the two of them start to connect through their grief, as Machiko is mourning her lost child and Shigeki his dead wife. Eventually, they decide to take a drive in the country, but after an accident, they find themselves in a two-day journey to the forest, and in a number of dangerous situations. The trip, however, provides them both with catharsis.
- 1/6/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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