Two movies on May-December affairs thrilled me with the couples connecting, hurt me when they separate, rejoiced with reconciliation, shocked with unexpected turn of events.
One is fun to watch, the other more profound and hurting. Couples are happy when not in denial, disturbed when pressured for rightness.
In Love in Mauritius, two couples with issues strike it out: the elder woman with his husband and mother and the younger student with his mother. Both go through a period of transition moving on without each other. Eventually, the two discover that they are meant for each other.
Age gap, marital status, lies, and undisclosed facts were overcome by the feelings the two are meant for each other realized over time.
While both Christian and Stella are physically separated pressured by the local community and the accident, Christian discovered a way to be reunited perpetually through the sight of fossilized insects.
No pressure can block the strong drive of the younger lover to make the relationship work even if it means giving up one's life or ways initiated by the young male to put a closure to the relationship.
A Minute's Silence is a Best Film nominee in the 2016 Munich Film Festival.
https://cinemaworld.asia/movie/a-minutes-silence/
Both films shown on Cinema World.
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Two movies on May-December affairs thrilled me with the couples connecting, hurt me when they separate, rejoiced with reconciliation, shocked with unexpected turn of events.
The European films Love in Mauritius in French set in the island and in Paris and Minute's Silence in German set in a fishing village in Baltic tackle the themes on love frowned by norms.
One is fun to watch, the other more profound and hurting. Couples are happy when not in denial, disturbed when pressured for rightness.
In Minute's Silence, I feel the pain of Christian when as a student to his teacher and as a fisherman and boatman in a small community, he represses his feelings. I feel his pain when he cannot even say goodbye in private to his beloved partner and teacher Stella.
While Christian and Stella are physically separated pressured by the local community and the accident, Christian discovered a way to be reunited perpetually.
No pressure can block the strong drive of the younger lover to make the relationship work even if it means giving up one's life.
A Minute's Silence is a Best Film nominee in the 2016 Munich Film Festival.
https://cinemaworld.asia/movie/a-minutes-silence/
https://youtu.be/fbwUwpQtwS4
In Love in Mauritius, two couples with issues strike it out: the elder woman with his husband and mother and the younger student with his mother. Both go through a period of transition moving on without each other. Eventually, the two discover that they are meant for each other.
Age gap, marital status, lies and undisclosed facts were overcome by the feelings the two are meant for each other realized over time.
https://cinemaworld.asia/movie/love-in-mauritius/
Both films shown on Cinema World.
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