From the floral euphoria of Bambi to outright pastoral terror in The Wicker Man, cinema’s best spring stories are a heady bunchSpring is emphatically here, albeit in somewhat damp form of late; coinciding with the vaccine drive and an incremental lifting of lockdown restrictions has rarely felt like quite such a restorative time of year.
Being what they are, the movies can sometimes overstate the romance and renewal of springtime.
This year, however, I find myself in the mood for any and all films that give the season its rosy due.In compiling a streaming playlist of cinema’s best spring stories, my mind went first, of course, to its sweetest, sunniest depictions.
Perhaps no film has ever matched 1942’s Bambi for the sheer pastel-tastic euphoria of its spring scenes.
The accompanying ditty Let’s Sing a Gay Little Spring Song might seem like overkill, but you’ll
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