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Five films that explore what it feels like to truly grieve
Grief is a common theme in cinema, it provides emotional, character-focused situations that for many viewers are instantly familiar.
Most of us know what the characters on screen are going through, we understand the disorientating swell of feelings and acute sense of loss that the actors articulate and perform because we are more than likely to have experienced them ourselves.
- Jimmy Hay
- The Conversation
This familiarity leads many films to approach grief in purely narrative terms, to…