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A whisper of a feeling


There are some movies that sort of dwell inside you after you watch them , and for me this is one.
I fully understand how many people would consider this a very dull film and i do respect these opinions. It is so understated in every facet: light , dialogue , the plot itself seems to be non-existent as all characters go full circle and return unchanged to where they began. Or aren't they?
In real life , most of the time , when something happens to change our routines , it happens slowly. It creeps inside our lives and at first it's like a whisper. Then , gradually it may or may not grow and even become a scream or a song , who knows? But the point is that what we see in this film is the whisper. Suddenly , the members of this family who gather in the same place they have always visited and talk to each other in the same they always have, suddenly they experience a shift. This is not the kind of drama where you get to see what the shift brings and how the consequences affect the family members in the long run. You just get to live with them for a weekend that seems ordinary on the surface but if you listen closely , if you feel closely , you will sense the change.
As the painter so eloquently puts it: "being tough is actually holding your cause in some way and believing that thing inside of you that's really, really important to you , even though it's not defined as yet and you can't articulate it , you can't reveal it to others in it's full worldly sense."

P.S. Only in IMDB do i get to rant about movie stuff and i'm grateful for it ;)

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I think, Marie, that this film was made to allow you to rant about it on IMDB.
Unfortunately for me I am quite aware of how an upper middle class English family works so it was like watching etchings on the sitting room wall.

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