Maboroshi No Hikari 1995 Hirokazu Koreeda

This is the work of the great Japanese Director Hirokazu Koreeda. A brilliant four minute sequence, starting with her noticing the mourners wearing bells like the one worn by her dead husband, then to the procession seen through trees, when, by luck or careful timing, it begins to genuinely snow. The haunting music starts and carries on into that amazing two minutes where a ribbon of mourners walks slowly from right to left, a thin strip on a screen filled with grey sky. She, not being part of the mourning