Beautiful Something Left Behind
An emotional roller-coaster ride of a movie, both inspiring and upsetting, and deeply cathartic.
Beautiful Something Left Behind
Life-affirming and profound, BEAUTIFUL SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND beautifully captures the heartbreaking, mundane and even the funny moments in the lives of several young children who have recently lost one or both parents.
The Good Grief community in New Jersey focuses on a holistic approach to mourning, where children can give in to rage in ‘the volcano room’ or say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in ‘the hospital room.’ Over the course of a year, we get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan and Mikayla along with their constant companion: grief, as they attend their weekly group meetings at Good Grief, practice small rituals to remember their loved ones, and go about the daily work of living.
Filmmaker Katrine Philp keeps the camera and the point-of-view firmly on the children and while it is sometimes deeply sad, it’s also at times humorous to experience questions about life and death through their open and curious minds.
The Good Grief community in New Jersey focuses on a holistic approach to mourning, where children can give in to rage in ‘the volcano room’ or say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in ‘the hospital room.’ Over the course of a year, we get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan and Mikayla along with their constant companion: grief, as they attend their weekly group meetings at Good Grief, practice small rituals to remember their loved ones, and go about the daily work of living.
Filmmaker Katrine Philp keeps the camera and the point-of-view firmly on the children and while it is sometimes deeply sad, it’s also at times humorous to experience questions about life and death through their open and curious minds.
Genre
Documentary,
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Runtime
88
Language
English
Director
Katrine Philp
FEATURED REVIEW
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer to Nail
The loss of a loved one and the attendant grief is hard enough to process for the adult mind; for children it is well-nigh incomprehensible. They are just beginning to understand their place in the world and the context of their everyday lives, so any change, much less the death of a parent or a ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 1.08.21 - 2.04.21
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