Hello r/movies! Recently I’ve been looking for a movie that I saw over a decade ago and cannot remember the name of. Yet, it was a very good movie! Perhaps one of you might recognize it from what I can remember. Thank you in advance!
The movie follows three brothers in their 30s who run a bakery. One of them is slightly mentally challenged. They’re all friendly with an old woman who has been like a mother to them throughout the years. One day, they learn that the woman is dying, so the brothers decide to spend as much time as they can with the woman in her final days. This is kept secret from the mentally challenged brother, who the other two brothers fear might not be able to handle the news.
Later on, the woman’s daughter, who is also in her 30s, learns of the news and she returns home from a volunteer trip in another country (in Africa I think; a photograph is shown of her with some African boys). This is how she meets the brothers for the first time. She is initially reserved and wary of the brothers. It is through conversation with the main protagonist brother that we learn she is not sure what she wants to do with her life. She’s gone from job to job, project to project, feeling that she could not do as much she wanted to in each. She also asks why the brothers care so much about spending time with her mother. MPB reveals that the brothers’ own mother died when they were young, while the woman came to fill that role in their lives. In a way, spending whatever time they can with the woman is a way to make up for the time they never got to spend with their own mother when she was passing away.
The weeks go on and MPB and the daughter are starting to bond. I don’t remember many specific details here. Sometime in the movie a walnut metaphor is used by MPB while talking to the daughter: they’re hard to crack, but once you get past the hard layers, it’s worth it.
Let’s jump closer to the end now. We’re in the bakery as the mentally challenged brother is making pies. The woman loves his pies and he’s been making them for her throughout the movie. He’s been making them smaller and smaller for the past few weeks because, unbeknownst to him, the woman is having trouble digesting food due to her illness. This is giving him trouble, since it’s hard to make a tiny pie. The other two brothers are having an argument in the foreground. Eventually, the third brother snaps, declaring that he can’t make the pies any smaller. He reveals his suspicions that something is going on, lamenting that the other brothers don’t think he can handle it “because [he’s] retarded”. After a pause, the two other brothers decide to tell the truth: the woman is dying. The third brother runs out sobbing.
A few days later, the woman is lying in bed getting a checkup. MPB and the daughter are in attendance to see if the woman needs anything, She essentially replies “Oh, you kids go and have fun. I’ll be fine.” So, MPB and the daughter depart into the hallway, where they reflect on the situation, the past few weeks, and their relationship. Soon, the daughter brings up the walnut metaphor to describe herself and how she has opened up to MPB. However, this a flirty double entendre: she starts playing with MPB’s shirt as she’s talking. The metaphor ends in a kiss between the two, which cuts to a vignette of them making love in a bed somewhere. Nothing explicit is shown.
The next morning, the couple finds out that the woman had died overnight. The daughter feels guilt for not being there in the woman’s final moments, while MPB tries to console her by saying that she was there in the room with her that night. The daughter counters “We were having sex.” Somewhere along the conversation, MPB asks the daughter to marry him. She initially refuses, saying that she’s still not sure who she is meant to be. She’s had so many failures in her her life that she doesn’t want marriage to be another one. MPB convinces her otherwise and that her mother would want her to be happy. She ultimately says yes. The movie ends with a series of photographs from the wedding.
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