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Daddy Nostalgia [VHS]

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I was browsing the video section and picked up this movie on a lark. It is a beautiful movie about the complex family relationships of a terminally ill father, his daughter and his wife. This thought provoking film is set in the Cote D'Azur. Dirk Bogarde is marvelous as the dying patient who sneaks out with his daughter to have a glass of whiskey for old times sake. This is not one of the depressing emanicated man - on the contrary, his outlook on life is a lesson to us all.

This film was a quietly moving and wrenching film about the ties of family sharing a moment of grief, all the more devastating for being an undercurrent, rarely articluated. A father is dying and his daughter and wife attempt to build a barrier of denial concerning his true conditiom. Slowly we are witness to the tragedy of human life in all of its mystery and beauty. Each of the performances are a marvel of subtle emotion, and expression. The film explores the meaning of a person's life and attempts to suggest ways of accepting the inevitable, that is death.