Saturday, July 26, 2003

grandparent movies

After seeing Whale Rider a couple of weeks ago I'm trying to remember if I've seen any other movies in which the relationship between grandparent and grandchild is so central. It is in The Secret of Roan Inish, another favorite of ours, but it's highly romanticized in that film and not at all in Whale Rider. The amazing thing is that the grandfather is in many ways a very unlovable person--and yet his granddaughter loves him, and we can understand why. What a lovely film.

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