My husband Jerry and I saw the Argentinean film, “The Window” recently at the High Museum’s Latin American Film Festival in Atlanta. Our Argentinean friends called it a “joya,” a gem of a film.  New York Magazine calls it “A moving tale of memory and regret, held together by beautiful performances and delicate direction.”

We’re showing “The Window” this Thursday, October 23, at 6 p.m. at the library.   It is the monthly Film Movement selection and runs 85 minutes. It is not rated and will be shown in Spanish with subtitles.

Linda Dubler is the High’s Curator of Media Arts. With her permission, Dubler’s review of “The Window” is below.

This exquisite, contemplative film from director Carlos Sorin (“Bombon the Dog,” “Minimal Stories”) centers on eighty-year-old Antonio who, after a vigorous life, awaits what will probably be a final visit from his estranged son.

Counting the minutes until his arrival, the frail Antonio hobbles from his bed and looks out the window at the Patagonian landscape. He sees light and life, the past, the present, and intimations of the future—a vision so compelling that he sneaks past his caregivers to take what might be a last walk in his fields.

Through Antonio’s foray into both the corners of his own memory and the world beyond his shadowy room, Sorin evokes the elegiac and pastoral spirit of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries.

Go to Linda Dubler’s blog, www.highmuseum.wordpress.com for other ideas about great films to watch. And be sure not to miss “The Window.” Call 837-2417.