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Departures
06/10/2009
Departures, you know that little Japanese flick that stunned the world by winning best foreign film at the Oscars this year, finally arrives in theaters this week. I have yet to see the two heavyweights of world cinema that it brought down to win the prize ("The Class" and "Waltz with Bashir") so I can't compare it to those but this certainly doesn't feel like award-winning stuff here.
