Incredibly gentle, slow learning curve by characters who nevertheless learn more vital truths about themselves in 4 weeks than most humans ever will about themselves thru a lifetime
Feb 23, 2024
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Very under-appreciated film. Watching it feels like going on a vacation. It also makes one wonder like Ichiko, “How much of my life is lived for the sake of other people’s expectations?” The road to self-actualization is long and non-linear, but it’s worth traversing.
Dec 30, 2024
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Rewatched this on Valentine’s Day when I was feeling down and it made me giggle for the first time in weeks.
this movie is inexplicably human and to an extent everything we are told we are not supposed to do — waste away a day and fall in love with a stranger. In the end, the movie is about giving in — to ourselves, to our deepest desires no matter how impractical.
Feb 18, 2025
A story of survival, loss, sadness, and almost indescribable joy in community.
IDK how it took me so long to discover this (it first came out in 2008) sweet little film.
Essentially it's the story of "chosen family" -- approximately 50 families of Holocaust survivors (most of whom lost every family member they had to the Nazis) who invested together in a bungalow colony up in the Catskills and come together every summer to reunite, hang out, and reminisce.
The movie focuses on the year 2006, when many in the colony are getting to the age where life is harder for them physically, and collectively they must decide how long the colony should continue, or if they should sell this special place where they can see each other "and be free."
"Life can be beautiful even when it's not so easy" says one of the survivors of her lot in life.
I loved and was so inspired by this story.
https://fourseasonslodgefilm.com/
Jul 23, 2024
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