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Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms tells the story of Rudi: terminally ill, he travels to Japan after the sudden death of his wife Trudi, in order to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer, in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings.
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Observer (UK)
April 09, 2009 It's a quiet, very beautiful film about the duality of love and death.
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Georgia Straight
July 07, 2010 Is it all a bit precious and far-fetched? Sure, but so, the filmmaker is saying, is life.
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Times (UK)
April 09, 2009 The example set by Ozu's best works goes unheeded as the film becomes too cutesy and forced to be moving.
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Christian Science Monitor
March 02, 2009 If you have ever seen Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story -- one of the greatest films ever made -- you may respond to Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms, which is a kind of homage.
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Boston Phoenix
April 23, 2009 I can appreciate Dörrie's craft, and her sincerity, but the two-hour story of Rudi's evolution, which includes his unlikely friendship with a tiresome white-faced butoh performer (Aya Irizuki), meant nothing to me.
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San Francisco Chronicle
March 20, 2009 The movie is an ideal blend of character study, deceptively simple plot twists, inspired acting, and travelogue.
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Chicago Reader
July 30, 2015 This may lack the understated pathos of Ozu's somber masterpiece, but it's still a moving meditation on aging and loss, and Wepper and Elsner are unforgettable.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 06, 2009 It's a gentle lesson in facing life's hardships with acceptance rather than grief.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
April 22, 2009 A bare reading of the plot doesn't actually do justice to the subtle beauty of this exquisite little film.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
October 11, 2015 I am in favor of films remaining enigmatic or having an air of mystery about them, but Cherry Blossoms crosses the line into aimlessness.
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