Maborosi
A beautiful and melancholy movie. Breathtaking cinematography and score.
With the pathos, coiled drama, and painterly framing of an Ozu masterpiece, this movie speaks in its silences and shadow. A truly beautiful work.
Filmed utilizing only natural light, but conforming to clearly well thought out visual framing -- Hirokazu Koreeda unfolds this story in the most unusual of ways. The movie feels as...
A masterpiece,what else can be said? It was great to revisit Kore-Eda's first film 20 years later. Although much sadder and somber than his later efforts, this keeps the humanistic...