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.
师伟,黄非,李景波,邸力,方化
黄晓明,邓超,佟大为,杜鹃,王真儿,乔治·安东,杨晨,张籽沐,雷昊汶,佟磊,刘天佐,Claire Quirk,Daniel Berkey,公翠英,于膨玮,冯仑,宇轩,胡明杨,柏明,唐晓峰,凯特琳·菲茨杰拉德,杨轶,吴越坤,张跃德,毛大庆,田朴珺,John Taylor,闫锐,Barbara Malley,Tracey Ilgner,Catherine Gibson,Anthony Santoro,艾梓童,黄卫,黄天齐,康晟闻,雷瑷嘉
陈西贝,宋洋,启航
徐爽,士东
段奕宏,郭碧婷,戴立忍,刘雅瑟,谢依霖,谢楠,冯馨瑶
基姆·古铁雷斯,玛尔塔·埃图拉,安东尼奥·德·拉·托雷
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