Songs of Earth

This 2023 Norwegian documentary should be on everyone's must-see list. It's stunningly beautiful and thoughtful. The lingering shots of nature, intimate close-ups of a horse's eyes, the filmmaker's father's hand - it is intense and gorgeous. Painterly in some parts. The 85-year-old father and his wife are the human focus, but they are out in nature and it's mostly nature. There is a meditative feel and thoughts of death and climate change, but it never felt gloomy. "Songs of Earth" was titled in Norwegian "Fedrelandet," or fatherland, which makes so much sense because it's about the  countryside director Margareth Olin grew up in and also about her father. But it has weird connotations in English so I get why they changed it. Anyway, this movie is astonishing and beautiful and you should see it.

There's a tiny person at the edge of this massive glacier.