Film: Cottontail

The only film I saw during over 20 hours on board one of the world’s best airlines, Singapore Airlines.

As you know dear reader, my priority is to look for international films I have never heard of and Japanese is usually my first choice. Frankly, there wasn’t anything I wanted to see anyway. I spent quite a bit of time looking at the chap’s screen in front of me who watched hours and hours of Lord of the Rings. One assumes he wasn’t watching these for the first time on a tiny screen.

As it happens, Cotton Tails is Japanese but based in England. It’s the story of a widower who regrets not bringing his Beatrice Potter-obsessed wife to England and is now honouring her dying wish to have her ashes scatted on Lake Windermere.

We watch as he bumbles about, having left his son, his wife and his grandchild who gallantly travel with him behind in the hotel and endeavours to find the Lake District on his own.

He comes across a farmer and his daughter who in a manner that only happens in films, invite him into their rural home, feed him and then drive him for hours to nearer where needs to be.

A sweet film.

7/10

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