Home is everywhere

We can make any place our home and make anyone our friend! What a little gem of a movie this is! Like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy morning - it left me with a warm, happy feeling and a big smile!
Watching it with friends made it an even more enjoyable experience. It was the probably the perfect setup for such a movie watching experience - far away from the familiarity of home in a distant country and gradually falling in love with it; away from the safety cocoon of friends and family, but forging bonds of friendship with people from all over the globe.
In a nutshell, it was a freezing, snowy December evening in 2012. We were this wonderful gang of people in a cozy Stockholm apartment, us Indians (representing a cross-section of our country, hailing from north, south and east), a German-American living in the Netherlands, a homegrown Dutch and a Spaniard living in Hungary! As the wise-crack Chandler might have said - Could it BE any more of a mixed bag?!

It was an unforgettable experience, sitting with these new-found friends and reveling in the humor and warmth of this film which talks about going away from one's home to build a new one; leaving behind the comforts of familiarity to gather a treasure-trove of memories; it resonated so deeply with me at that point of time.

 Go watch Welcome to the Sticks / Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis IMDB  for a heartwarming experience.


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