Every March a teacher holds a death education class by taking them to help lay to rest the unknown people of their town. The idea is to help his students come to terms with death.
Deeply moving and incredibly moving film is less a straight on documentary and more a meditation on death an how we view it. Little is said. There are long silences. However the images are haunting and they pull us into the events on screen. We are quietly give much to thin about.
I can not image what this film is going to do to any film that follows it in a festival. This is a film I'm glad I saw divorced of a shorts collection because when it was done I just sat quietly and contemplated life. If I had seen this in a shorts collection I probably would have gotten up and walked out and done something similar. Quite honestly this film kicks up way too much to the point that nothing can follow it closely.
It is certain to stay with you until year's end.
One of the great films of Sundance.
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