Dear My Love, followed by Love and Savagery

Tuesday, September 1

a japanese one called Dear My Love .. it lasted 2 hours and 10 minutes .. i never once looked at my watch ..

3 couples closing in on age 60 ..

one having arranged a divorce after 30 loveless years .. he, a successful businessman who retires from the large firm to become involved with a young start-up run by his most recent younger woman fling ..

his wife of many years has done nothing but cook and clean for him and their daughter .. (who is very pregnant, and involved with a young man who is not the father of the child she's carrying ..) the wife finds a job simply to have something to do .. as her ex has left her well taken care of financially .. she cleans and cooks for a woman who is a translator of american novels ..

the translator often seeks professional advice concerning medical terminology from a doctor who subsidizes his income as a consultant for writers .. usually of medical tv shows .. he is widowed, has a teenage daughter, and is very shy .. this relationship is another the movie follows ..

the doctor has a patient with diabetes .. this man runs a fish store with his wife .. years earlier he had wanted to be a rock star, but had to take over his father's fish business .. so he married one of his "fans" .. they are childless and bicker all the time ..

 

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wednesday, september 2

Love and Sabagery: a canadian-irish co-production .. a geologist poet from newfoundland travels to ireland to see a burren .. and falls in love with a young woman who is about to become a nun .. she fights her attraction to him .. members of her family turn nasty on him for his interest in her .. he writes poems to her ..

the irish landscape is exquisite .. the mother superior is human ..

 

actually a film worth seeing

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