Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed
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.
主演:黛茜·贝茨,乔尔·斯马尔本,克雷利·伯杰,乔纳森·杰克逊,卢卡斯·布莱克,坎达丝·卡梅隆·玻儿,Paul Luke Bonenfant,迪塞尔·拉托拉卡,JJ Pantano,坦兹·麦考尔,Angus K. Caldwell,Hillary Scott,兰斯·E·尼克尔斯,罗斯琳·詹托,特瑞·欧奎恩,唐·莫斯特,蕾切尔·亨德里克斯,博·威里克,丽蓓嘉·圣·詹姆斯,Dean Shortland