Still Walking

"Still Walking" : un jour d'été, dans une famille japonaise unie par le chagrin et l'amour de la vie Cérémonie familiale à Yokohama. C'est l'été. Certains traînent les pieds pour aller passer ce week-end chez les parents. Médecin à la retraite, retranché dans son bureau, le père ne cache pas sa réticence à accueillir enfants et petits-enfants, mais son épouse compense la froideur du vieux ronchon [...] Vai alla recensione »

The three generations who gather together in “Still Walking,” a quiet, stirring film from the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, fit uneasily under the same roof. Set in a port city, though largely played out in the tight, boxy confines of a single home, the film turns on a melancholic, at times resentful and seethingly angry 15th-anniversary reunion to mark the death of the eldest son.

"Still Walking" works in mysterious ways. It will strongly move you, but you won't be able to say exactly why. It illuminates 24 hours in the life of a Japanese family, and though it may appear that not much is happening, by the end everything is revealed. For those who remember his masterful "After Life," it's not surprising that "Still Walking" is the work of writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda.