An Italian mortician is the subject of Filippo Ticozzi’s austere yet poetic character study. In her days spent preparing corpses and teaching forensic reconstruction, Katrine is contemplative and gifted, and the viewer accompanies her as she traverses the realms of the living and the dead, the ordinary and extraordinary, with humor, aplomb, and grace. After work, repose is still a part of Karine’s life; she exhibits a dignified calmness, much like the film itself, as she ruminates on subjects large and small. Intimate, spellbinding, and unfolding in long takes with a sumptuous palette and cinéma vérité sensibility, Chasing the Wind does not sensationalize Karine’s avocation but instead reveals the subtle virtues of a job well done and a life well lived, even when that life is immersed in death.  TM