2008 ‘Kirschblüten - Hanami’ Directed by Doris Dörrie
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...
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What a cruel film. This film tells the story of a parasite who is first served by his wife for decades, then after she dies, takes up living the adventures he denied her for decades. So she dies before ever experiencing the small pleasures she wanted to experience, and he gets to have a few more months to live them out? He stole her fucking life from her, and our story spends more time watching him achieve some special fucking epiphanies. Neither of the two main films this takes inspiration from (Ikiru and Tokyo Story) were so cruel, even at their most heart-breaking.
"If I had known it would end so suddenly, I would have been nicer to her."
FUCK.…
Lifechanging. Meaningful. One of the most beautiful movies i’ve ever seen. I don’t think there’s a way back after watching this.
"The Mayfly lives one day. A single day of pain. A single day of passion.
Fly to the end. Your paradise is eternal. Only one day to remedy.
Let it fly. Until I find death. Your paradise is eternal."
"Cherry blossoms. The symbol of transience. They are born one night, live a few days and leave. You can not keep them."
"I don't know where is her body. I have her memories inside me but when i'm gone, where will she be?"
In the first half of the movie, Dörrie clearly adapts Yasujiro Ozu's famous TOKYO STORY and resituates it to Germany: Bavaria and Berlin. As it is impossible to do justice to Ozu in only 50 minutes - and in a movie, that is financed by German TV stations (meaning: everything that's subtle in the original is blatant and rushed in the adaption), the movie improves a lot after the protagonist has traveled to Tokyo. Once you made it through the horrifyingly clichéd nightclub scenes, there are 40 minutes left that are actually quite good and increasingly moving; quite deeply moving, to be honest. Fine finale.
A bittersweet tale of loss and regrets realized by an aging couple (Trudi and Rudy)! Of how Rudy triumphantly overcomes these obstacles by immersing himself in the very things he denied the love of his life (Trudi)!
Somebody better hold me back! Because I swear there were several times during the film I wanted to smack their ungrateful children in the chops! Thankfully Yu came into Rudi's life to offer him the understanding and love his children were incapable of giving him!
I was truly moved by the film and yes it's handkerchief worthy!
كل شيء يتغير للجميع ، وتصبح زيارة اليابان ليست ممكنة فحسب ، بل ضرورية. فيلم جميل يحكي قصة علاقة الزوجين ورحلة الحياة مع اقتراب الموت.
Artsy fartsy to an insufferable extent. An old man whose greatest fantasy is to live his mundane routine every day until he dies finds himself lost in the world after his artistic wife, whose spirit he smothered, passes away. His kids in Germany can't be bothered with him, so off he goes to Japan with his wife's ashes and clothes to visit his youngest son and, ultimately make a trip his wife only ever dreamed of to see Mt. Fuji.
First off, this is a bold, bloated 2 hours long, luxuriating in long moments of characters lost in thought or moments of rapture or whatever. Rudy, our man character, is an oddball, his grief shown as a moody checklist including…
In case you were wondering, at the end the Japanese local is sitting with the sad man whose parents died and she pulls out a menu, points to an egg roll on a plate, says "your mother," points to the egg roll on the plate beside it, says "your father" and he looks up and gives a consoled expression
A film with some serious ups and downs. Director Dörrie didn't make it easy on herself when she decides to mix a dramatic story on love and mourning with a Japanese travel vlog. The strict, rather dry German vibes don't gel too well with Japanese culture, which makes for a tricky blend of two worlds colliding.
The first part is spent in Germany, where Trudi finds out her husband suffers from an advanced stage of cancer. Unable to tell him directly, she pushes him it's time to take some time off together. They go to visit their children in Berlin, but they are living their own lives and don't quite understand this sudden visit of their parents.
The second part…
Wonderful sweet, sad film about loss and regret. Loved the melancholic score and the actors are perfect.
For #FemaleDirectedFriday
