Friday Night Movies

February 20, 2010

I thought I’d share with you a wonderful movie I saw last night. Eulogy is downright funny at moments, always witty, and profiles a delightfully wacky (and rather dysfunctional) family as they come together after the death of their father. I highly recommend this to all who work in, or on the periphery of, funeral service.The eulogy, albeit one the grandaugher didn’t write, was very moving:

“Did you really leave me again? After all the seasons I spent waiting, watching out the window, listening at the door, waiting for the news of your return? for the news that you realized that someone important was waiting for you. A whole lifetime I’ve been waiting. I can’t believe you’re not coming back. I can’t believe I’m supposed to stop waiting. I can’t believe you left me again…”

There are other fun films, of course, that revolve around death and funerals. The classic Harold and Maude is one of my all-time favorites.

Death at a Funeral is a campy British film. Way-too-funny, in that delightful British way.

Snd then there’s the ages-old The Loved One, based on the book of the same name by Evelyn Waugh. Hard to believe I was only eleven when this film came out!