yearning for home

In Gaza, where the health ministry says more than 46,900 people have been killed during Israel's offensive and the majority of the strip's pre-war population of 2.3 million has been displaced, many civilians yearning for home learned over the weekend that their long wait would continue.

The eternal yearning for home is most primally captured in Danish writer-director Nikolaj Arcel’s “The Promised Land,” starring Mads Mikkelsen as a low-class war veteran from Denmark who follows the urging of the mid-18th century Danish king to settle the near-barren, lawless area of the Jutland Heath.

They grew up in St. Louis, and though they lived out west for four years after college, they never stopped yearning for home.

The title of this mutedly touching piece seems applicable to both what Sosa’s mother and her siblings had to renounce after migrating north — the yearning for home that the director herself inherited — and what Julián himself wants his humble legacy to be once he’s departed.

There’s a striking romanticism to the scene – a return to nature after the horrors of the trenches, explicitly tied to a yearning for home: away from Europe and back to England.