Sightlines · a viewing thread

Home for the Funeral

A run of return-to-the-village films where a death draws someone back to the family they left, and the days of mourning unearth what was buried — old secrets, forbidden desire, the true shape of who's gone.

Festival-circuit arthouse (Cannes and Sundance regulars), warmly reviewed but unhurried and quietly wrenching — watch when you want to sit inside grief rather than escape it; On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is the hardest of the four.