It is unbearable, almost existentially shocking: a film version of Van Gogh's Sorrowing Old Man.
Also belonging to this period is Sorrowing Old Man ("At Eternity's Gate"), a color study that Hulsker describes as "another unmistakable remembrance of times long past".
Whatever sorrows the men had were nourished in this devoutly Muslim, predominantly Kurdish, utterly remote town in eastern Turkey.
"The joys and sorrows of men and nations lie behind the inscriptions, paintings, temples, cathedrals and masks, behind the musical compositions, stage spectacles and dances," Macke wrote in the Blue Rider almanac.
"You profit off the sorrows of men who are more than the sum of their mistakes," he wrote. .
Justin Bieber has expressed his shock and sorrow after a man was killed while taking photographs of the teenage star's car.
Shabiu says that during the hearing he stared at Ronghi but felt only sorrow for the man's mother and father, to have such a son.
We thought we were feeling compassion and sorrow for a man, and what we were actually doing is buying a ticket for his trip to hell.
Is this a form of envy (which Robert Burton, in "The Anatomy of Melancholy," called "sorrow for other men's good" and "joy at their harms")?
Masolino in his "Man of Sorrow" fresco of the mid-1420s shows a parallel ability to blend the old with the new.
