Still Walking (2008) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
“Still Walking” strikes an extraordinary balance between the moment-to-moment pleasure of life and the inevitable regret that accompanies time’s passing. It’s a fresh, lovely, humorous family drama in which little happens but much is revealed.
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Director Hirokazu Koreeda negotiates the heavy themes with a light touch. He has immense pictorial gifts, composing deep-focus frames that bustle with activity or sit intimately quiet. He holds on faces long enough for us to register which characters have trouble looking at each other. The camera moves seldomly, and with little fanfare. In his offhand way he seems to say, “Look how easy it is to understand people — all it takes is close observation of daily life.” You could complain that the pacing is monotonous, but you feel you’re eavesdropping on the quiet joys and sadness of real life.
This will stay with you for a long time.
(Via)
Still Walking (2008) dir. Hirokazu Koreeda
Nobody Knows (Dare Mo Shiranai, 2004) dir. by Hirokazu Koreeda
“Who cares that this long, quiet film, one of the saddest ever made, takes time to get going, time to re-create the terrible truth of its characters’ predicament … What makes the film riveting is the lack of drama, the director’s distance…”
-Joan Dupont
Air Doll 空気人形
dir. by Hirokazu Koreeda
Takes some cues from Lars and the Real Girl, but this seems a little more poignant; a little less feel good rom-com.
