SFFS Screen Presents: The Window
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Jul 17, 2009 - Thu Jul 23, 2009)
- Cost
- $8 - $14
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
Description
The Window (Argentina/Spain 2008, SFIFF 2009), Carlos Sorín's poetic, humanist contemplation on a man's hopes, fears and wishes at the end of his life.“I try to hold on to it, for fear of losing it forever,” reflects 80-year-old Antonio, recalling the image of his childhood of time—the inescapable path that consistently delivers the present to the past. The significance of this is not lost on the bedridden Antonio, determined to prepare a perfect homecoming for his long-estranged son, who left the old Patagonian hacienda for Europe years earlier. As he waits for his son's visit, confined to his room by doctor's orders, a look out the window stirs within him the desire for one last walk through his fields, the need to relish the loveliness of the landscape and experience the vibrancy of life. What results is not simply a moving meditation on aging and death, but an elegantly lyrical and humanistic film.
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