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AFTERMATH

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Atom Egoyan's

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

This is about grieving. A school bus accident. A small town. A lawyer who wants to 'make things right' for the surviving parents.

One could almost anticipate the story but not this time.

It is not told linearly and that is a plus. You edge into its center.

Ian Holm is the lawyer. Very good. The parents and survivors are all deeply etched characters.

We are in winter most of the time. When we are not, we are contemplating it.

It is a blue movie. Literally and figuratively.

I would like to see it again sometime.

I will rate it a 4 out of Netflix5.

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