![]() ![]() ![]() To do so when one of your parents is a globally famous Nobel laureate makes that task infinitely more daunting. To write a book about the death of your parents is to expose moments of intense intimacy and vulnerability. And there you are, two hours later, talking about anything.” And then there are things that make you laugh - the family is still the family. ![]() “It is like a light going out extremely softly and it leaves you dumbfounded. “The moment of death and the moments around it are so incredibly simple, especially when a person is not in pain,” says the filmmaker, seated in his bright Santa Monica garden. He also recorded death’s processes and banalities: the conferences with grim-faced doctors, the pro forma small talk, the sharing of memories - meaningful, funny, off-color - that serve as a way for the living to grapple with the absence that looms. In these, he recorded his most profound sentiments. As director Rodrigo Garcia’s father lay dying, he found himself taking notes. ![]()
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