The Ground Beneath Our Feet

Life, when approaching one's end, begins to look like a simple matter. This is the takeaway from one of the most beautiful, genuinely human, and bittersweet documentaries in recent memory. Documenting fragments of the daily life of the elderly residents of a nursing home in Reykjavik, the visually evocative The Ground Beneath Our Feet takes us on a journey to a place of tranquil idleness, which appears to be untouched by time. Momentary glimpses into lives that now inhabit the present almost shyly, subtly, silently, and without tension, captured tenderly and respectfully through the camera lens, compose an impressionistic cinematic depiction of the elderly. A harmony of form and content at which one cannot help but marvel, it is the cinematic equivalent of a warm, empathetic embrace amidst the fragility of human existence.