“What if the universe really is kind?”
We have seen three films this year that remind us that there is hope through our pain—resilience, a capacity to forgive, and to love as human beings on a chaotic and often brutal planet. They are Cherien Dabis’ All That’s Left of You, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, and Greg Green’s ’TƎMPEST’. Each, in its own way, taps into a profound desiderium—that deeply human, bittersweet ache for what we have lost that somehow still affirms our desire to go on living for love.