MovieModsRecommend: The Sweet Hereafter

We mods are in this subreddit daily and know the users feel like the same movies are talked about way too often. The most popular movies on Reddit are certainly some great ones, but every week we're going to recommend what we think are good movies and aren't discussed much in this subreddit. These recommendations aren't all pretentious film school meditations on human verisimilitude, we swear they're watchable :)January 30, 2021 is The Sweet Hereafter - 1997This is the slowest of the films we've recommended, so far, but I swear it's worth it. This is a movie so well done that you can watch it and enjoy it and not even realize how truly nuts it gets. What does that mean? Well, a week ago I showed my parents It's Hip to Be Sandman and it's so well done they thought it was just a normal song, didn't realize it was a mashup. Likewise, you might watch and enjoy The Sweet Hereafter and not really realize that it has eight timelines, including one in the future.Those are just the mechanics of the narrative though. All of it props up a profound story of darkness covering a small town, then healing. Fair warning: it gets heavy. Maybe not a non-stop soul-punch like Manchester by the Sea but it's up there.This'll let you get the tone of it. Absolutely beautiful score.The trailer, with all its 90s voice over ham.Here's Roger Ebert gushing over it. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 97 Cannes Film Festival, and Atom Egoyan got a Best Director nomination at the Oscars.Tangentially related: if you want to learn more about its complex screenplay structure, there's a whole section of this book that goes into it.Please use spoiler tags in the discussion below, as this is a recommendation thread for people who haven't seen the movie yet. If you have a suggestion for a future recommendation, please post here with it!The MovieModsRecommend Archive via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3pAzuOa