I couldn’t hold back the tears through the ending of this film. It ends with a magnificent crescendo of hope that I found profoundly beautiful and poignant, and then, as the credits roll, the first notes of The The’s This is the Day starts to play and I dissolved.
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You would think that a three hour film called Dying would be depressing or perhaps overwhelmingly emotional or sentimental. Director Matthias Glasner delivers an absorbing story of a family, told in chapters about each person, and laces it through with humour and an almost dispassionate emotion.
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This was not what I was expecting at all. It’s an oddly torturous, funny, thought-provoking story of a man who has significant facial disfigurement.
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One of the hardest things about MIFF is staying confident with the films that you have chosen.
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I love this kind of film. It’s like a black and bleak Hunt for the Wilderpeople but where parenting isn’t a grizzled old man getting a second chance. With sex toys.
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I am in love with Peaches! I don’t know how I have missed out on this phenomenal woman.
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I was expecting a sentimental man dog road movie and thank goodness it was so much more than that.
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