简介: Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter. Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
乔尔·埃哲顿,菲丽希缇·琼斯,凯瑞·康顿,威廉·H·梅西,小克利夫顿·克林斯,邢思杰,戴维·保罗·奥尔森,John Patrick Lowrie,Chuck Tucker,Rob Price,保罗·施耐德,Brandon Lindsay,纳森尼尔·阿坎德,Eric Ray Anderson,约翰·迪尔,Beau Charles,Rick Rivera,Taylor McKinley,Ashton Singer,Zoe Rose Short