Film: Aruitemo aruitemo ("Still Walking")

[winterspel]

Comments

[misaseba]

Thank you for the review! It sounds like a beautiful movie. And also very Japanese. :D

I will watch this as soon as I get back home!

[winterspel]

It was a really lovely film - beautiful both in terms of cinematography as well as the portrait of this family. It struck me as very real, very human. These people were both frail and enduring, if that makes sense.

[vierran45]

Thank you for the lovely review, this sounds like a beautiful film. I look very much forward to seeing it next Thursday at the film festival.

[winterspel]

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it. :) I read something today that made me think of this film: "Family life comes down to dramas that seem ordinary from the outside, but to the participants feel as tumultuous as volcanic eruptions." (from here, a theater review by Peter Marks) To me, this seems like a good description of the film - it's quiet and understated but each incident seems to take on outsized importance to specific characters, until each thing is swept aside until the next time, or until something else dominates the conversation.

[jigsawangel]

Hmmm I will have to check it out...thanks!

[winterspel]

I hope you like it! Hopefully it will be on DVD soon.