Departures

Those Oscar people must know what they're doing. I saw the best movie I've seen in quite a while the other night.
 
"Departures" won the Oscar this year for best foreign film. Like "The Lives of Others," which won a couple of years ago in that category, it didn't get to Kansas City until long after the awards. So do we complain that it took so long, or are we thankful it made it here at all? I don't know any more.