Sun 14 Feb: 'Cherry Blossoms': a beautiful film for Valentine's Day

A beautiful and eloquent film specially for Valentine's Day.

In the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm, wine and beer bar from 6.45.

Those who recall 'The Visit' will appreciate this film's meeting of Japanese and German cultures. A tender, sometimes tearful tale, very well acted, bringing out the duality of love and death and a sense that, like blossoms, every moment is worth grabbing.

German filmmaker Doris Dorrie writes and directs this tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love. When an elderly German woman, Trudi (Hannelore Eisner), learns that her husband Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is terminally ill, she chooses not to tell him, and instead suggests that they take a trip to visit their son, who lives in Japan.

When Trudi dies along the way, Rudi learns that his wife had always longed to go to Japan, and heads there during the cherry blossom season to fulfil her wishes and take stock of his life.

This beautiful film culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings.

"It's a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death, and makes expressive use of the mysterious modern Japanese dance form called butoh." -- Philip French in The Observer

This is ChOC's film of the month, screened in the Memorial Hall at 7.30pm, wine and beer bar open from 6.45. Tickets £4.50 at the door or in advance from News and Things, Cotswold Frames and Evenlode Books. Cert 15, 127 minutes. In German with English subtitles.

More information, reviews and the trailer -- all at www.chocfilms.info

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