On 5 feb, 01:12, moviePig wrote:
> On Feb 4, 6:27=C2=A0pm, william wrote:
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> > Yo,
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> > "Maborosi" was impressive. "Nobody Knows" is stunning. It's based on a
> > true story of a women who abandons her children. Just leaves them,
> > after a while, to fend for themselves in an apartment. Each child has
> > a different father and the fathers aren't anywhere around. Any number
> > of other directors would go for the sentimental and manipulative
> > aspects of the story and the interactions between the children (aged 4
> > to 12, or so) would be played for the pathos. Hirokazu Koreeda is more
> > interested in presenting the realities of the situation and working
> > with some tight cinematography he elicits some really good
> > performances from the kids. (Y=C5=ABya Yagira who plays the eldest, a b=
oy
> > of 12, beat out Tom Hanks -- among others -- to win best actor at
> > Cannes.)
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> > Some situations just don't have closure or resolution and apparently
> > -- at least based on the two films that I've seen -- that isn't
> > something that concerns Koreeda. He's worth seeing just for that. I
> > have another of his films on my reserve list and I'm pacing around
> > waiting for it.
>
> Wow, he also did AFTER LIFE. =C2=A0Maybe ethnic insensitivity on my part
> that I hadn't homed in on him as such a noteworthy director, as, like
> most here, I'm quite attentive to that particular credit. =C2=A0I wonder
> which American directors, if any, would be his counterpart with a
> solid career of small, personal, and highly affecting films without
> having been sucked into the industry maw. =C2=A0I can't think of a soul n=
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> overseas. =C2=A0Maybe Richard Linklater... Gus Van Sant (intermittently).=
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