Matterhorn

[Machine Translation] Winner of numerous awards at film festivals around the world, including the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Audience Award at the Moscow International Film Festival! A film that is an ode to life, presented by a new Dutch talent who has produced master directors such as Paul Verhoeven (A Smile of Ice), is sure to move you! --Fred lives in a beautiful village that retains the atmosphere of old Holland. Fred is a lonely old man with no family and no friends. His life is a repetition of the same routine: he comes home, sits in his favorite chair with a cup of coffee, listens to his son's tape of Maria, prays at exactly 6 o'clock, and then eats a meal with the same menu. The only thing that soothed his loneliness was a picture of his wife and children with whom he ate. One day, Fred orders a man with stubble to clean his garden in return for a debt he owed to a man who had asked him for money a few days earlier. However, the man does not say the pre-dinner prayer, nor can he use a fork or knife. Fred is appalled by the man's childlike behavior, but the act of sharing a meal with someone else begins to light a small candle in his lonely heart...

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ロッテルダム国際映画祭観客賞、モスクワ国際映画祭観客賞など、世界の映画祭にて多数受賞! 『氷の微笑』ポール・バーホーベンなど、巨匠監督を産み出すオランダの新たな才能が贈る、人生賛歌映画に感動間違いなし!! ――古きオランダの雰囲気を残す美しい村。そこに住むフレッドは、家族もなく友達もいない孤独な初老の男。彼の人生は、帰宅後にお気に入りの椅子でコーヒーを飲みながら、絶縁した息子が歌う「マリア」のテープを聴き、6時ちょうどに祈りを捧げてからメニューの変わらぬ食事をするという、同じ事を繰り返すだけの毎日。ただ食事の相手である妻と子供の写真が、唯一彼の寂しさを癒していた。そんなある日、数日前にお金をせびられた無精ひげの男に、借金の肩代わりとしてフレッドは庭掃除を命じるのだが、男の仕事に取り組む熱心な姿に感心し、お礼として夕食をご馳走する。ところが、男は食前のお祈りも行わず、フォークやナイフも使えない。まるで子供のような振る舞いの男に呆れるフレッドだが、誰かと食事を分けあう行為が、彼の孤独な心に小さな灯りを灯し始め・・・。