Movie #1178 This is one of the best films we saw at the Phoenix Film Festival this week -- it won the Audience Award for Best film in World Film Competition --- yes it has subtitles, and it's slovakian. It's basically about a woman who provides home care on a daily basis (sometimes under difficult circumstances (whether the patient is troublesome, or the weather, or the distance traveled to get there, or the home care itself) and she herself gets a diagnosis that will result in lots of home care in the future. As a result, she searches for an alternative treatment. In the Q and A, the director referred to Raki --- I'm not familiar, but the way I interpreted it from the film, while your body is becoming weak and fragile, the techniques taught to you through this treatment help you strengthen the soul. Just going through a recent death in our family, I found this quite interesting, and very poignant when the home care nurse realizes her body will fail her, but her soul has bloomed! Loved this film and gave it 5 stars out of 5 ---- the director told us in the Q and A that it was filmed in his hometown, in the house he was born in, with the townspeople as background actors. It was a well acted, good story that I hope comes to our Naperville Film Festival.
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