The Departure
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The Departure (Blu-ray)
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 23, 2018
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Film Rise
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Lana Wilson |
Entertainment Reviews:
The film, like its main subject, is a quiet exercise in empathy that's likely to leave audiences more hopeful than defeated, if only by a hair.
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Pittsburgh City Paper
Unfailingly sensitive about issues of selflessness and suffering, "The Departure" is in a way its own work of meditation, on the pressures of living up to the turbulent promise of life's expected length.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/4 --
This is a film that manages to be simple yet thought-provoking, sad yet comforting, and anguished yet tranquil. In short, a work of art.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 2/5 --
Lana Wilson's documentary portrait of [Buddhist priest] Nemoto triumphs as a story but stumbles as a movie.
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San Diego Reader
"The Departure" creates its own space cinematically between capturing the life of its subject in vivid detail and offering the transcendent experience of genuinely feeling closer to him.
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Moveable Fest
Rating: 8/10 --
Though The Departure's initial draw is the novelty...the film is actually a low-key examination of suicide in Japan.
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The Pop Break
Again, wow-what a story here.
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That Shelf
Description by OLDIES.com:
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself. The Departure captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him: what makes life worth living?
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 87,368
- UPC: 191091568163
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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