2024 'Handling The Undead' availabile in the U.S. through Kanopy

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2024 'Handling The Undead' availabile in the U.S. through Kanopy

Post by gkmoberg1 » Sat Dec 21, 2024 12:28 am

The 2024 movie is available now on Kanopy in the U.S.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/handling-undead
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2118648/?ref_=tt_mv_close)

Kanopy is a service often available through public libraries (I cannot speak for elsewhere. Anybody know?). If you are in the U.S. and have a library card at your town public library, check out the library's on-line portal and see whether your library card gets you free access to Kanopy. If they do and you opt for it, you'll get about a dozen monthly tickets to watch items from the Kanopy collection. Most movies cost 2 tickets and give you 72 hrs before the movie is electronically returned.

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Post by a_contemplative_life » Wed Dec 25, 2024 1:25 pm

Thanks for sharing this!
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Re: 2024 'Handling The Undead' availabile in the U.S. through Kanopy

Post by gkmoberg1 » Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:49 pm

I'm about 20 mins in. Okay... um. We need to talk. Where Is The Story? Is there going to be dialog? Meaningful story development? Did I put on the wrong movie? :?

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Re: 2024 'Handling The Undead' availabile in the U.S. through Kanopy

Post by Siggdalos » Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:11 pm

gkmoberg1 wrote:
Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:49 pm
I'm about 20 mins in. Okay... um. We need to talk. Where Is The Story? Is there going to be dialog? Meaningful story development? Did I put on the wrong movie? :?
As I've posted elsewhere, it works better if one doesn't expect it to be like the book beyond the initial premise. Hvistendahl's focus was on making a slow, quiet, small-scale meditation on grief more than anything.
De höll om varandra i tystnad. Oskar blundade och visste: detta var det största. Ljuset från lyktan i portvalvet trängde svagt in genom hans slutna ögonlock, la en hinna av rött för hans ögon. Det största.

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Post by gkmoberg1 » Mon Dec 30, 2024 3:00 am

Thanks good to know.

I'll take a deep breath, forget the book, and press Continue.

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Post by gkmoberg1 » Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:20 pm

Rewound and started anew.... Glad to have given this a watch.

The opening is hard to sync with but once I accepted the slow, somber pace, all flowed well. Some horrific moments along the way, of course. I liked how the three parallel progressions came, each, to an appropriate end for their course.

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