2007 · drama · grief · nature
The Mourning Forest
Directed by Naomi Kawase1h 38m2007
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Our read: The Mourning Forest (2007) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · grief · nature entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / grief, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- signature
- intimate
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