SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“Remarkable...A quietly overwhelming study of human connection and our relationship with the natural world.”
82 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Bas Devos. In French, Romanian, Chinese, and Dutch with English subtitles. DCP.
Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is about to return home to visit his mother, and maybe stay...longer. Using the leftovers from his fridge, he cooks up a big pot of soup and begins handing it out as farewell gifts to friends and family. But while waiting for his car to be fixed, he meets Shuxiu, a Belgian-Chinese woman preparing a doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks. On the heels of Ghost Tropic (2019), Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.