Grief is not a simple and uncomplicated emotion. Sorrow is not few tears!
My Eternal Summer explores the hidden depths and complexities of the pain of loss. There are vital contradictions governing life – the world opening up for teenage Fanny, when a formative presence in her life is about to bid her final farewell. This film is candid & relatable in the midst of bereavement, mourning and pains.
On the surface nothing much appears to happen in the film. Fanny and her parents Karin and Johan drive down to their summer house for rest, relaxation, reading, swimming, walking & picnics. Beneath this familiar routine lies the mortality of Karin. It will be Karin’s Last summer.
The family spends time together, living in the moment and making memorable intimate memories for a future devoid of Karin. Daughter Fanu explores the inevitability of death and anticipated grief. She also thinks about the gradual process of reconciliation and healing unsuccessfully, even before the loss of a loved one.
My Eternal Summer is not about the one who is dying but about those who are left behind. This film looks at how relationships gets shaped and reconfigured with death at the corner and how an impending tragedy changes family dynamics.
Fanu’s style is marked by distinct delicacy even when she mines the ugly and unacceptable emotions. Lack of communication and broken connection between father daughter. Both of them are like silent, isolated islands in a sea of sorrow and suffering. The family of three feels real, as do their emotions, individual and collective. There are moments that feel so livid in that they break your heart.
This movie is emblematic – a poignant and profound meditation on the fragility of life and dignity in death and the one that upholds the ultimate truth about having to let go of the ones we hold the dearest. This movie is directed by a first time director – Sylvia Le Fanu. Actors: Fanny (Kaya Toft Loholt); Karin (Maria Rossing); and Johan (Anders Mossling).
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
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