The Most Beautiful Village in the World (2017)

Original title

世界でいちばん美しい村

Directed by

Bon Ishikawa

Genre

Documentary

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 48m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A photographer travels to a remote Himalayan village in Nepal after a massive earthquake destroys it. He meets a boy there and makes two promises to share the village's story and to return. Over repeated visits he comes to see the village not as a disaster site but as a place of unexpected beauty.

contemplativehopefulhumanizingrestrainedgentleslow-pacedemotionally resonantobservational

What happens

『世界でいちばん美しい村』（せかいでいちばんうつくしいむら）は、2017年のドキュメンタリー映画。2017年3月25日に東劇ほか全国公開。 2015年4月25日、ネパールをマグニチュード7.8の地震が襲った。写真家石川梵は報道のため、ジープと徒歩で2日かけヒマラヤ奥地にある震源地の村ラプラックにたどり着く。 全滅し、孤立無援となった村で石川は少年アシュバドルと出会った。石川は少年とふたつの約束をした。ひとつは「この村のことを世界に伝えること」もうひとつは「必ずまたこの村に戻ってくるということ」。支援のため、村に何度も通ううちに、当初は悲惨で絶望的に見えたこの村が、じつは桃源郷のような「世界でいちばん美しい村」であることに気づく。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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