"A fascinating journey of discovery, aided by some Oscar-caliber
performances. ... a memorable film well worth discovering."
~ Larry Thomas, Cincinnati Edition WVXU
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"A magnificent new film from Japan ... In his first three features released in North America, and now in this film, he has produced profoundly empathetic films about human feelings. He sees intensely and tenderly into his characters [and] feels a strong connection with spouses separated by death or circumstances, and the children who are involved. Kore-Eda is a tender humanist, and that fits well with his elegant visual style." ~ Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times Read the complete review. "Pitch-perfect and profoundly moving, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking, a quiet portrait of a reunion among three generations of a Japanese family, has a documentary's keen sense of the everyday. It also has the deeper resonance of great poetry." ~ Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer Read the complete review. "The quiet moments that end up defining our lives. ... Still Walking works in mysterious ways. It will strongly move you, but you won't be able to say exactly why. Kore-eda's delicate, elegiac film accomplishes all of this because he has an uncanny grasp of how relationships within these kinds of groupings work and don't work, a feeling for the small ways we disappoint not only each other but also ourselves." ~ Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times Read the complete review. "We are in the presence of a new classic. ... moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety." ~ Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York Read the complete review. |
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"Mr. Kore-eda, who also directed After Life and Nobody Knows, can have a deceptively simple touch. ... He writes realistic characters rather than the types you often find in the movies ... This is life as it's lived, not dreamed. And this is a family bound not only by sorrow, but also by a shared history that emerges in 114 calibrated minutes and ends with a wallop." ~ Manohla Dargis, The New York Times Read the complete review. "[An] understated but utterly spectacular film ... a comedy of good manners, an elegy for lost potential and a cultural moment caught mid-shift. It's also one of the more accomplished and beautiful films released thus far this year." ~ John Anderson, The Washington Post Read the complete review. "A sublime experience ... a subtlety to the evoked emotions that involves the viewer rather than distancing ... The tone is perfect; this is one of those rare films that, despite being rooted firmly in the world around us, is utterly absorbing and capable of reducing the immediacies of life into abstract thoughts in the back of one's mind." ~ James Berardinelli, ReelViews Read the complete review. "The poignant Still Walking uses cultural specifics to conjure universal emotions. [It] isn't an American-style family melodrama, which typically builds to screaming rage or shocking revelation. The movie's style is gentler and more affectionate than that." ~ Mark Jenkins, NPR Read the complete review. |
"Transcendent...completely absorbing, so sure of its own scale and scope
that while you're watching it the rest of the world fades into irrelevance."
~ A.O. Scott, The New York Times