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.
德蒙特·莫罗尼,杰奎琳·比塞特,多米尼克·莫纳汉,克里斯·马尔基,麦克·马科夫,罗尼·吉恩·贝尔维斯,安东尼·斯科迪,葛人杰·海恩斯,加文·沃伦,德文·米歇尔斯,吉尔伯特·格伦·布朗,大卫·圣路易斯,Nancy La Scala,Jonathan Peacy,Sarah Cortez,Cosima Cabrera,Edgar de Santiago,普雷斯利·库克,Brick Patrick,布莱恩·梅