Coco

Dear Mark,

I was struck by the beauty and tenderness with which Coco deals with profound subject matters such as death, memory, absence and loss. The assertion that the dead are not absent whilst there is someone still alive who loves and remembers them, and the practice of marking this memory in a carnival of colourful exuberance, are deeply moving ideas. The film's more complicated notion of memory being central to identity deals with the very current problem of dementia in the older population, questioning who we become when we no longer have memories.

In a society which needs more candid conversations about grief and mortality, Coco is an uplifting film prompting a personal and collective examination on how we deal with death and loss.